By The SUN
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| Staff at a quarantine hotel wait for new arrivals from the airport: 106 imported cases were reported |
Health officials are warning
that the daily Covid-19 infections may rise further, as they reported 814 new
cases on Sunday, slightly lower than yesterday. A recordp-high 106 imported
cases were among them.
Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the
Centre for Health Protection said cases are being found in various districts,
so it is likely that the clusters would get bigger.
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"We won't rule out the
chance that the figures could go up further, especially when you see the new
cases weren't outbreaks concentrated in specific areas but
territory-wide," Chuang said.
She added there has also been
surges in the amount of virus detected in sewage, as well as the reproductive
rate of local cases as seen in studies conducted by the University of Hong
Kong.
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Since it is estimated that there
are still between two to three million people in Hong Kong who have not been
infected in the fifth wave of the pandemic, there is a big possibility of a further
rebound in cases if social distancing measures are not observed.
Of today’s cases, 364 were
confirmed through PCR tests, while the remaining 450 were self-reported rapid
test results that were confirmed by the authorities.
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The total tally from the fifth wave has
now exceeded 1.205 million. No new death was reported, so the mortality figure
from the same period remains at 9,177.
Of the imported cases, 64 were detected at
the airport, 34 at quarantine hotels and eight after the patients had ended
their isolation.
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FLM, one of two bars where clusters of
infections were first detected Friday, added four more cases today, involving
three guests and one staff. They took the tally there to 17.
There were no new cases at the other bar,
Racks City, so the cluster tally there remains at 18.
Chuang said 18 environmental samples taken
from Racks City all tested negative for the virus, except for one that came
from a pool table, which had an indeterminate result.
The number of cases
involving the Omicron sub-variant, BA.2.12.1, has gone up. Sixteen suspected
cases were reported by CHP, including a close contact of a previous case who
was under quarantine at home, and five who live in two separate units in a Tai
Koo Shing block.
The other patients
live in Wan Chai, Ho Man Tin, Ap Lei Chau, Tai Kok Tsui, Mong Kok, Yuen Long,
Ma On Shan and Tuen Mun.
Dr Lau Ka-hin of the
Hospital Authority said 361 patients are receiving treatment in public
hospitals and the North Lantau Infection Control Centre.
They include 15 who are
in critical condition and seven in serious condition.
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