Source: People's Daily health client
After Hong Kong reported more than 1,000 new cases for the first time on February 9, on February 11, Hong Kong reported 1,325 new confirmed cases, breaking 1,000 cases again.
The number of confirmed covid-19 cases in Hong Kong
On February 10, Carrie Lam, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said in a social networking software that more than 1,100 new confirmed cases were announced in Hong Kong, once again showing that the Omicron variant strain has a strong spread, and there are already many sources of infection in the community. In addition, there were 2 new deaths on the 10th, the first death case since the outbreak of the fifth wave of the epidemic, and the 2 patients were all elderly people over 70 years old. According to the Hong Kong Dagong Wenhui Network, this is the first case of new crown deaths in Hong Kong in 5 months.
Screenshot of Facebook posted by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Feb. 10
Mrs Lam said that the HKSAR Government reviews the development of the epidemic situation and the implementation of anti-epidemic measures on a daily basis, and has been seeking various methods and additional support to enhance its capacity for nucleic acid testing and isolation facilities. We hope that the general public will cooperate and support, try to avoid going out, do not have cross-family visits or gatherings, do a good job of hygiene and cleanliness, and pay attention to government information.
Hong Kong is already building a "FireEye Lab", pictured from Carrie Lam's Facebook
At the same time, she stressed that those who have not been vaccinated or should receive the third booster injection, especially the elderly, should arrange vaccination immediately to greatly reduce the risk of severe illness after infection, prepare for the "vaccine pass" implemented on February 24, and create conditions for the gradual and orderly resumption of normal life and business.
It is reported that the implementation of the "Vaccine Pass" requires that people entering individual premises must be vaccinated against COVID-19, and only in the two exceptions of not being eligible for vaccination due to age and being certified by a doctor as unfit for vaccination for health reasons can not be vaccinated.
On February 10, Chen Hengyong, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council who was the prime minister of the board of directors of Hong Kong Ren Chai Hospital, said in an interview with the Global Times that the encounter with the highly powerful strain of Aomi Kerong during the Spring Festival was one of the reasons why Hong Kong's epidemic prevention and control system was "broken", in addition, Hong Kong already had some hidden transmission cases in the middle of last month, and failed to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control in a timely manner in the early stage of the outbreak, and some hidden infected people can move around to become "mobile sources of infection". At that time, Hong Kong also did not strengthen its testing capacity, and these factors combined to cause the outbreak of this round of the epidemic.
Chen Hengpeng also introduced the current dilemma facing Hong Kong's epidemic prevention to the Global Times reporter. At present, There is already a situation in Hong Kong that nucleic acid testing capacity can not keep up, some Hong Kong citizens need to queue for five or six hours to do a nucleic acid test, "today in some nucleic acid testing stations have been lined up at the door of more than 5,000 people, some Hong Kong citizens see this situation and do not go to testing, nucleic acid testing difficulties will cause a lot of problems." ”