The fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong has recently stabilized. The number of new confirmed cases has been below 500 for four consecutive days, and the number of new deaths has been in single digits for two consecutive days.
The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced on the afternoon of April 27 that as of 0:00 that day, there were 222 new confirmed cases of nucleic acid testing and 208 new positive rapid antigen tests in Hong Kong. < strong>A total of 430 new confirmed cases (including 15 imported cases) were added throughout the day, and 8 new deaths were added.
So far, over 1.19 million people have been infected in this round of the epidemic, reaching 1,190,437 (including 745,318 confirmed nucleic acid tests and 445,119 fast positive test); a total of 9,069 deaths, with a case fatality rate of about 0.76%.
According to the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, 8 patients with COVID-19 died in public hospitals in the past 24 hours, including 5 males and 3 females, aged between 49 and 95 years old. There are 3 people, 4 people, and 1 people for the three-shot vaccine, and 7 people are over 65 years old.