The epidemic situation in Hong Kong continues to be severe! Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, March 4 (Reporter Huang Qiantian) The Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced on the 4th that as of 00:00 on the same day, there were 52,523 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Hong Kong. According to the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, 136 more confirmed patients have passed away in the past 24 hours.
A total of 136 people, including 76 men and 60 women, aged between 29 and 102, have died in the past 24 hours, of whom 73 have come from hospitals, and 52 more have died. Since the fifth wave of the epidemic, a total of 1,341 people have died in public hospitals.
The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (HKGEP) released the list of buildings confirmed yesterday (3rd), and a total of 4,001 buildings were confirmed in the past 14 days, a sharp decrease of 454 buildings from 1 March, of which the epidemic in Sham Shui Po is still the most severe, with 464 buildings on the list, the highest in the 18 districts, followed by Yau Tsim Mong District with 451 buildings.
As of today (4th), Hong Kong has reported more than 50,000 new daily confirmed cases for the third consecutive day, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases has exceeded 400,000! The Hong Kong government still assessed the epidemic situation today and did not peak, describing "everyone in the area" as having confirmed cases, so many that even the notice of safe travel has become ineffective.
Since last Sunday (27th), more than 250,000 people a week plus their close contacts need to be isolated, all walks of life are understaffed and difficult to maintain business, restaurants and merchants are suspended, transportation is reduced, courier companies do not go to the door to collect packages, supermarkets are restricted for individual goods, and even stinging villains are prohibited.
In addition, due to the impact of the epidemic, about 100 bus strips of many bus companies in Hong Kong will be suspended from today, and public transport services will be further reduced.
There are 46 new residential buildings with confirmed cases, and more than 70% of the elderly homes have been infected
The outbreak of residential buildings continues, Ou mentioned that yesterday there were 46 new residential buildings with individual cases or outbreaks, including 34 elderly homes and 12 disabled residential buildings, a total of 739 cases, involving 552 residents and 187 employees. These homes are located in various districts, including 11 on Hong Kong Island, 7 in Kowloon, 7 in the New Territories East and 21 in the New Territories West.
Since the fifth wave of the epidemic, there have been about 755 residential buildings in Hong Kong with individual cases or outbreaks. At present, 72% of the residential care homes for the elderly in Hong Kong have cases involving 9,800 residents, accounting for 13% of the elderly in hong Kong, and 2,850 staff members have been confirmed, accounting for 9.5% of the staff of hospitals in Hong Kong. Among the residential buildings with outbreaks, 53%, or 302, had more than 10 confirmed cases and at least 680 cases of death of residents.
The number of disabled homes with confirmed cases also accounted for 60% of the total number of disabled homes in Hong Kong, involving 3,100 residents, representing 17% of the total number of hospital members, and another 1,030 staff were infected, accounting for 9.8% of the total. Of the 56 per cent, or 100 disability homes, 56 per cent, or 100 disabled homes, had 10 or more cases.
The rush to buy continues, and supermarkets limit purchases
The fifth wave of the epidemic has not peaked, coupled with the fact that the people will cooperate with the grounding during the mandatory inspection period, many citizens have rushed to buy food and medicine in recent days. PARKnSHOP supermarket announced today (4 April) that it will impose a purchase restriction on rice, canned food, bread, boxed eggs, toilet paper and medicines from now on, with a limit of 5 pieces per customer per single transaction per product category. Watsons, a personal care store in the same group, will impose a purchase restriction on a full range of pain relief, fever and cold and flu products, which is also limited to 5 pieces per type of goods.
PARKnSHOP said that from now on, some products, including rice, canned food, noodles, boxed eggs, toilet paper and medicines, will be limited to 5 pieces per customer per single transaction per product category. PARKnSHOP stressed that the current supply of various types of food, such as eggs, bread, rice, oil, canned food, frozen seafood and daily necessities such as toilet paper and cleaning supplies, is still stable, which is only to allow more citizens to buy the food and daily necessities they need, and once again called on the public to rationally choose.
PARKnSHOP and Watsons reiterated that the current supply of all kinds of goods is stable, but due to the severity of the epidemic, there are frontline, logistics and logistics personnel infected with the epidemic, resulting in extreme manpower shortage, stressing that they will try their best to mobilize manpower to maintain service, try to speed up the replenishment, listing and logistics of goods, and promise to do their best to maintain price levels.
In addition, both chain stores said that they would distribute antigen rapid test kits to each frontline employee, and all frontline employees and promoters working in the store must self-test before going to work every day, and the test result is negative before they can go to work.
Source: Comprehensive collation