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| Health checks at HK's airport have been tightened as a result of the mystery disease outbreak |
Hong Kong authorities have reported seven new cases of
people being admitted to various public hospitals with pneumonia-like symptoms
believed to have been picked up from Wuhan
City in Central
China .
All the patients, aged between 2 and 55 years old, were
taken to hospitals in the past 24 hours after showing signs of fever,
respiratory infection or pneumonia symptoms. They are all in stable condition.
Three of them, two males and one female, are confined at Queen Elizabeth
Hospital ; two, a male and a
two-year-old female, are in Princess Margaret Hospital ;
one other female is in Ruttonjee Hospital ; and the last, a male, is in Tseung Kwan
O Hospital
A government press release issued at noon today, Jan. 5,
said the new patients brought to 15 the total number of such cases reported in Hong Kong since Dec 31. Five of the patients admitted to
hospital earlier have been discharged.
The statement said all the patients had been to Wuhan in the past 14 days,
but had not been to any wet market there. News reports had earlier identified a
wet market in Hubei ’s
capital as the source of the outbreak of the still unidentified type of
pneumonia.
They are all being treated in isolation at the hospitals while
the Department of Health is conducting further tests.
Reports of the mysterious flu outbreak have revived memories
of the deadly SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) that started in China in 2002, and went on to kill hundreds of people in several places,
including 299 in Hong Kong .
Latest reports from Wuhan
said 44 people had been admitted to hospital with the unidentified virus, and
11 are in serious condition. A further 121 are under observation. However, no
death has been reported.
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At least one suspected case has also been reported in Singapore , involving a three-year-old girl from China who had pneumonia and had traveled to Wuhan .
Yesterday, the government activated its new
three-tier response mechanism for infectious diseases and put down the suspected
Wuhan pneumonia
cases as “serious”. Least serious cases merit an alert response, and the most
serious, an emergency.
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