In Hong Kong, the number of newly diagnosed cases in a single day has been below 3,000 for four consecutive days. Zhang Zhujun, Director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection, Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced on the afternoon of April 9 that as of 0:00 that day, there were 897 new cases of new coronary pneumonia confirmed by nucleic acid testing in Hong Kong. An increase of 1638 cases, 2535 new confirmed cases (including 13 imported cases) and 62 new deaths were added throughout the day.
So far, the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong has infected more than 1.17 million people, reaching 1,175,631 (including 737,603 confirmed and 438,028 cases were reported by the rapid test positive platform); a total of 8,492 cases died, and the case fatality rate was 0.72%. For infected persons over 80 years old, the fatality rates of those who have not been vaccinated and those who have been vaccinated with one, two, and three doses of vaccine are 15.84%, 6.3%, 3.58%, and 0.97%, respectively, with obvious differences.
According to the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, 53 COVID-19 patients died in public hospitals in the past 24 hours, including 35 males and 18 females, aged between 58 and 107 years old, of whom had never been vaccinated or had been vaccinated. There were 34, 13, 5, and 1 vaccine recipients for the second and third injections, and 48 were over 65 years old. Nine more deaths were reported on April 7 due to lagging data.
Zhang Zhujun briefed on the latest epidemic
It is worth noting that Hong Kong’s citizens have been quick to Antigen test operations, positive results must be reported within 24 hours. However, the number of positive rapid test cases reported yesterday (1638) increased by 373 compared to the previous day (1265), which is not too much. In this regard, Zhang Zhujun said that among the positive rapid test cases reported in the past, those with symptoms and those without symptoms accounted for more than 60% and more than 30% respectively, but the proportion reported yesterday is just the opposite, which shows that many citizens have no symptoms. , but also responded to the call to do a quick test yourself. Recently, the detection rates of other viruses such as “enclosure and strong inspection” and community sewage have all declined. Therefore, under the rapid test of the whole people, the increase in the number of positive cases in the rapid test is also in line with the trend of easing the epidemic.
(Original title: Hong Kong added 897+1638, why is there not much increase in rapid test positives under the universal rapid test?)
Source: Beijing Daily Client
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