4,884 new confirmed cases today, including 188 imported cases, 22-month-old baby girl still in critical condition

[on.cc East Net News]The new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong continues. HA Chief Administrative Manager (Medical Effectiveness and Technology Management) Kwan Wai-min announced today (29th) that 5 new patients passed away in the past day, 4 males and 1 female, aged between 55 and 88, one of whom was from the hospital Abandon. The 22-month-old confirmed baby girl reported yesterday (28th) is still in critical condition and is receiving treatment at the Eastern District Hospital. In addition, the Hospital Authority has decided to relax the arrangement of prescription new crown oral drugs from now on. Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health, announced that there were 4,884 new confirmed cases in Hong Kong today, including 188 imported cases. Today, 2 elderly homes and 2 disabled homes have new cases; 290 schools have reported 351 more confirmed cases, involving 302 students and 49 teaching staff, and there have been many confirmed cases in the classes of 3 schools including Queen’s College. Classes must be suspended for a week.

Of the 188 imported cases, 79 were found during airport quarantine, 90 were during hotel quarantine, and 19 were after leaving the quarantine hotel. The cases come from 40 countries and regions, and more than 10 cases were imported from the following 6 places, including 30 cases in the United Kingdom, 17 cases in Singapore, 16 cases in India, 15 cases in the Philippines, 15 cases in the United States, and 15 cases in Australia. As for the confirmed 22-month-old baby girl, Kwan said that the baby girl started to have a fever the day before yesterday (27th), and her family took her to the North Lamma General Clinic for consultation. The flight service team arrived at the North Lamma General Clinic at 9:30. The baby girl was sent to Eastern Hospital for treatment. In terms of residential homes, 1 resident of the Hong Kong YWCA Yunhua Nursing and Attention Home has been diagnosed with the disease, and 5 people need to be quarantined; 1 resident and 5 staff members of the Pine Age (Bao Tak) Nursing Center have been diagnosed with the disease, and another 6 residents and 10 staff members need to be quarantined. In the Wai Lan Home Disabled Home, 1 resident was diagnosed and 6 residents were quarantined; at Fu Hong Society Ze’an Adult Training Center, 1 resident was diagnosed and 6 residents were required to be quarantined.

Guan Huimin said that the arrangement of oral medicine for the new crown will be relaxed today. Regardless of whether the patient has been vaccinated or not, the patient is 60 years old or younger, is a high-risk person, and is a long-term patient who seeks a doctor within 5 days of the onset of symptoms. Schedule a prescription for oral medication. In addition, an 85-year-old male patient in the internal medicine ward of Queen Mary Hospital was diagnosed, and two male patients in the same room, aged 70 and 72, were also diagnosed later. At present, three of them have been treated, and the authorities later found that four employees were infected successively. The wards concerned have been cleaned and disinfected, and new cases and visiting arrangements have been suspended.

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