The homepage Jun, who was still sorry for last night, saw such a news today:
Guangzhou's current round of outbreak 1 case infected with the Aomi Kerongya variant BA.2 strain!
This BA.2 is the "sister of Ami krong" that everyone heard about some time ago.
BA.2 is also known as the "invisible version" of Omilon because it is more cunning, terrifying and fierce than the original variant, and the infectivity has increased by 30% on the basis of the already super contagious generation of Omilon!
This is also the first time in mainland China that the BA.2 strain has been found...
Where did this wave of the outbreak come from? Maybe it had to start with the news from the previous two days.
On 15 February, Chenzhou City reported two confirmed cases of COVID-19 among Hong Kong returnees.
If you look closely at the flow of these two cases, you will find that it is very strange and extremely frightening.
At 4 a.m. on 14 February, the two cases took a boat from Hong Kong to Doumen District, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, at 5 or 6 a.m.
Later, through the private car that "waited for a long time" in Zhuhai, he rushed all the way back to Chenzhou, Hunan.
Someone has to ask, what serious entry should be carried out at 4 a.m.?
It's really not a legal way.
At present, there are only three legal ways for Hong Kong to enter the mainland: Shenzhen Bay Land Port, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Land Port, and Airport Land and Air Port.
There is no such thing as a boat option.
To put it bluntly, these two confirmed cases are smuggled into the mainland from Hong Kong!
Moreover, there is no strict compliance with the 14+7 epidemic prevention regulations.
This is not an isolated case of Hong Kong stowaways confirmed after entering the mainland.
Back to the epidemic in Guangzhou.
The first two cases of the outbreak in Guangzhou were also smuggled from Hong Kong to the mainland in the early hours of February 14.
According to Hong Kong media reports, the two people who entered Guangzhou from Hong Kong and Chenzhou arrived in Zhuhai on the same boat.
Source: Guangzhou Health Commission
At present, the epidemic situation in Guangzhou is more severe than that in Chenzhou.
Because, in less than a day, the trajectory of the two cases in Guangzhou spanned 4 districts in Guangzhou, involving 14 places.
These include LV Louis Vuitton Taikoo Hui store, Dior Taikoo Hui MU14, Panyu Chimelong Paradise and many other places with huge traffic.
On February 15, Dior, Taikoo Hui Mall, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, was disinfected urgently
After being so tricked by the stowaways, the lives of the people in many places in Guangdong and the people in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, were once again in a standstill.
But that's not all.
There were 15 people on the boat smuggled from Hong Kong to Zhuhai City, and only 12 people have been traced so far, and 3 people are missing.
The stowaways mainly went to Hunan, Fujian and Guangdong provinces of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan and Huizhou.
Beyond that ship, there were a number of cases coming inland from Hong Kong.
On 16 February, Zhongshan City reported a case of asymptomatic infection imported from abroad during the screening of key populations.
The infected person, Wei Moumou, entered from Hong Kong on the evening of February 13 and arrived in Dachong Town, Zhongshan City, from Zhuhai on the afternoon of February 14.
Although the official did not inform Wei Moumou of how he entered the mainland, it is certain that he did not strictly abide by the 14+7 epidemic prevention policy.
If it were not for the investigation of Zhongshan City, he who entered the country on the 13th may not have been caught out by now, and the consequences would be unimaginable.
The case in Zhongshan entered on the 13th, and the cases in Guangzhou and Chenzhou entered on the 14th, and they are obviously not in the same ship.
Does this indicate that there are not a few people smuggled from Hong Kong to the mainland?
Shenzhen's Luohu District reminds residents that "there are currently many people smuggling from Hong Kong to Shenzhen"
Even the number of people entering the mainland from Hong Kong through formal channels has skyrocketed in recent times.
Inside and outside the Shenzhen Bay port are surging crowds, and quarantine hotels are even more difficult to find.
So why are so many people crazy and want to flee Hong Kong?
The current epidemic situation in Hong Kong can no longer be described as severe.
For 8 consecutive days, the number of confirmed cases exceeded 1,000, and the rate of deterioration was extremely rapid.
On February 9, it broke through 1,000 for the first time, and by the 14th, there were 2,071 new confirmed cases, and about 4,500 preliminarily positive cases (the preliminary diagnosis was positive after testing in a place other than the Department of Health, and it needed to be re-examined by the Department of Health to be confirmed).
By 0:00 on the 16th, the number of new confirmed cases surged to 4,285, an increase of 164% over the previous day, and more than 7,000 preliminary confirmed cases.
By 0:00 on the 17th, the number of new confirmed cases of new coronavirus in Hong Kong reached 6116, setting a new single-day high again! Another 6,300 cases were initially confirmed positive.
Most of these cases are subtypes of Omiquejong BA.2, but there are also a small number of deltas.
When you wake up tomorrow, how many new additions will be added to Hong Kong? Homepage Jun dare not think.
It's just that experts admit that Hong Kong is really unable to bear it.
At present, the peak of the epidemic in Hong Kong has not yet arrived, and by the end of February, the number of new cases in a single day may exceed 10,000!
Moreover, the current round of the epidemic in Hong Kong may cause 250,000 people to be infected!
By the end of June, the death toll could break through the thousand.
Other experts predict that by mid-March, the health care system could be facing collapse.
In fact, Hong Kong's current health care system is not much different from a collapse.
According to Caixin, as of the 16th, in the past two weeks, Hong Kong has added more than 16,000 new cases, as well as 7,000 preliminary confirmed cases.
But only about 4,654 confirmed patients are being treated in hospitals.
As of 16 February, about 17,000 infected people in the community who have been confirmed or initially positive have not been admitted to hospital.
What about these infected people who can't be admitted to the hospital?
Some people choose to stay home isolated.
However, Hong Kong's population density and per capita living area are well understood, which will undoubtedly further increase the outbreak of the epidemic in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong, where land is scarce, is often crowded together by generations
There are also some people who are admitted to "open beds" outside the hospital and can only slowly wait to be admitted.
Source: Hong Kong 01
At this time, Hong Kong is facing a double attack of cooling and rainfall. Many patients can only cover the body with aluminum paper to keep warm.
It is not difficult to see from the pictures that many of the infected people are elderly people with underlying diseases themselves.
Their resistance is already weaker than that of young people, and coupled with the inability to keep up with medical conditions, what awaits them is likely to be death.
In fact, there have been many deaths in Hong Kong.
On the 15th alone, 10 confirmed or preliminarily confirmed patients passed away. These include a 100-year-old female patient and a 3-year-old girl.
According to Sing Tao, a total of 249 confirmed patients in Hong Kong have passed away in public hospitals.
Hong Kong now faces another challenge.
Infections in healthcare workers.
According to the Announcement of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority on the 15th, 103 staff members of public hospitals have confirmed or preliminarily confirmed their diagnosis.
On the 16th, 120 staff members in public hospitals were confirmed or preliminarily confirmed.
By the 17th, more than 140 staff members of public hospitals had confirmed or preliminarily confirmed cases.
This is undoubtedly a worse blow to Hong Kong, which is already overloaded with medical treatment.
If medical staff fall one after another, hong Kong may only be left with the darkest hour.
Fortunately, Hong Kong still has us.
At present, the mainland has fully supported Hong Kong at the first time.
Most of Hong Kong's food supply comes from the mainland, including 92 percent of the city's vegetable supply, and the outbreak has left some truck drivers transporting vegetables stranded in Shenzhen, which has directly caused some vegetable prices in Hong Kong to triple.
Even so, vegetables in some parts of Hong Kong have been snapped up.
The mainland has increased the supply of vegetables to Hong Kong and has ensured the stability of vegetable prices in Hong Kong to the greatest extent.
It is our tradition that one side has difficulties and eight parties support it.
Although Guangdong is likely to become the province and city most affected by the epidemic in Hong Kong, the medical team from Guangdong has arrived in Hong Kong in spite of itself.
Because of the shortage of manpower, it takes two or three hours to queue up in Hong Kong to do nucleic acid.
To help Improve Testing Efficiency in Hong Kong, we sent enough rapid test kits and COVID-19 antigen reagents.
In addition, the "FireEye Laboratory" we have prepared for Hong Kong has also been officially operated.
"FireEye Laboratory" can operate 24 hours a day, with a daily single tube detection volume of 100,000, if the three-in-one mixed sample test, can process 300,000 samples per day! This will greatly improve the efficiency of testing in Hong Kong.
At present, Shenzhen has dispatched more than 200 testing personnel to join the operation of the "FireEye Laboratory" to help Hong Kong.
So Hong Kong, which is temporarily in prison, don't be afraid.
Behind you is a powerful motherland.
Together, we will be able to overcome difficulties and win this hard battle.
ref：
Caixin: About 7,000 initial positive cases in Hong Kong have increased by the day, and more than 17,000 infected people have not been admitted to hospital
Observer Network: There are 1,619 new positive cases in Hong Kong, and the mainland is fully supportive
Hong Kong 01: Patients outside the emergency room cold wind in the bitter ground workers called for the send of quilt doctors to worry about increasing the risk
Sing Tao Network: The 5th wave of the epidemic | increased by 6116 cases of new crown, 6300 cases of preliminary diagnosis, and 24 more patients died