Hong Kong gradually returned to normal and officially cleared customs with the Mainland yesterday (8th).
Looking back at last week (January 2-8), the epidemic showed signs of slowing down. A total of 120,946 local and imported cases were recorded, a decrease of 43,326 from the previous week (December 26 last year to January 1 this year).
However, the average total number of hospitalized patients last week was 5,121, an increase of 1.% from a week earlier.
As for the death cases, last week was still 66 more than the previous week, or 7.37%, while the seven-day average death rate compared with the number of patients increased by 0.143 percentage points last week.
▼January 8 Sunset Mazhou/Futian Port Customs Clearance▼
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Imported cases reduced by 60%
There were 120,946 confirmed cases last week, a decrease of 43,326 or 26.33% from the previous week's 164,182.
Among them, in terms of imported cases, the number of imported cases last week was 2,391, a decrease of 60.37% from 6,033 in the previous week; the average ratio of imported cases on the 7th day of last week was 2.06% of the total cases, a decrease of 1.79 percentage points from a week earlier.
Last week, the number of variant virus Omicron subtypes showed an upward trend. As of 00:00 on Sunday (8th), the number of imported cases of XBB increased by 1 to 227, including the first recorded XBB.1.5 case.
The WHO pointed out earlier that the XBB.1.5 virus strain is the most infectious subtype of the Omicron variant so far, and it is worried about the rapid spread of the XBB.1.5 virus strain in the northeastern United States.
Cases of other virus strains remain unchanged.
In terms of local cases, XBB increased by 4.85% to 173 cases, BQ1.1 increased by 3.13% to 198 cases, and BF.7 doubled to 27 cases.
Cases of other virus strains remain unchanged.
The average number of patients staying in hospital in the 7th day was 5121
In terms of the number of hospitalized patients, the 7-day average as of yesterday was 5,121, an increase of 1.07% compared to the previous week, and the average number of new patients admitted to the hospital gradually decreased by last Sunday. A maximum of 594 people were admitted to hospital, a weekly decrease of 20.79%.
Last week, there was an upward trend in the number of new critical and serious cases in a single day, from an average of 70 on the 7th of last week, an increase of 11.11% week-on-week.
The average number of critically ill patients last week was 462, an increase of 20% from the previous week.
Among them, the number of people receiving intensive treatment last week also reached 55, which is not much different from the previous week.
In terms of death cases, a total of 473 patients died last week, an increase of 66 or 7.37% compared with the previous week. The 7-day average death toll was 67.6. A total of 12,342 people died in Hong Kong. The 7-day average death rate rose from 0.248% to 0.391 %.
▼Citizens line up for nucleic acid testing on January 7▼
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