The fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong has generally stabilized, but recently there have been clusters of infections involving students. Ou Jiarong, the chief doctor of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, reported on the 21st that three students in the first year of the first year of the “Hong Kong University Alumni Association College” in the southern district of Hong Kong Island have tested positive one after another, and it is not ruled out that they are related. In the “Benchmark Hongsi” group of a teaching institution in Sheung Wan, 4 more students were infected, and a total of 21 people have been diagnosed.
Data map of school resumption Confirmed, the two went to class on the last day on the 18th and took a sick leave on the 19th; another student in the class reported a positive test on the 17th, went to class on the last day on the 16th, and developed symptoms on the same day. All three of them have been vaccinated, and their family members have not been diagnosed. There are 33 students in the class, and the remaining 30 students were all negative in rapid antigen tests from the 16th to the 20th.
Due to the similar time of onset, the three people may have been infected while moving together indoors. Some students revealed that although they wear masks in school, and there are no “high-risk activities” such as physical education classes, playing musical instruments, and eating together, some people may briefly remove their masks when drinking water in the classroom. Ou Jiarong said that there are more than 900 students and 100 teaching staff in the middle school involved in the epidemic, and the school has been required to be disinfected. At present, the risk is controllable. If there are new cases next week, we will consider arranging mandatory testing.
According to statistics, 112 schools in Hong Kong reported that 103 students and 19 staff members tested positive this week. Combined with the 785,000 students and 130,000 staff who participated in the rapid test, the positive rate was about 0.013 respectively. %, 0.015%, which are stable levels.
In addition, the 4 newly confirmed cases in the “Benchmark Hongsi” group are all students from the 11th to 15th courses. Three of them went to the “Tanzai Sange Rice Noodles” restaurant in Sheung Wan, where the outbreak had occurred on the 13th, and became ill from the 18th to the 19th; the other was a 53-year-old man who only attended the graduation ceremony on the evening of the 15th and became ill on the 17th. On the 18th, the rapid test was positive. At present, a total of 19 students and 2 staff members in this group have been infected.