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Three more elderly patients were reported to have died in
the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to to 34.
The latest fatality was a 94-year-old man who died at 12:45
pm today at Queen
Mary Hospital
Late yesterday, a 90-year-old woman died in Tuen Mun Hospital , while another woman, aged 92, succumbed to
complications from Covid-19 at Queen
Elizabeth Hospital
All the patients had chronic illnesses, and were admitted to
hospital with symptoms, before their condition deteriorated over time.
Health officials said in today’s press briefing that all the
new cases were locally acquired.
Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health
Protection said 79 of the new cases were related to previous cases, 36 were of
unknown source. Of the linked cases, 58 were infected during gatherings of
families and friends.
For the second day in a row, Dr Chuang declined
to comment on reports that a team of medical experts from the mainland are in Hong Kong to help prepare for a temporary laboratory that
will expand the city’s testing capability.
Chuang said she was not in a position to speak
about the team’s work in Hong Kong .
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| Dr Chuang (left) with Dr Ho says she can't speak about a mainland team's work to help HK test more people |
Reports from Beijing
said the experts will help test all of Hong Kong ’s
7.5 million population amid the recent surge in Covid-19 cases. But local
officials say they will still have to study this prospect carefully.
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Among today’s cases is a doctor at Union Hospital
Another doctor who was confirmed as a positive
case today worked at the general ward of the Caritas Medical Centre in
Shamshuipo. An 87-year-old male patient in the ward tested preliminarily
positive, while two other patients there were found infected on Jul 25 and 26.
Dr Sara Ho, chief manager at the Hospital
Authority, said the infected doctor ate with three other doctors at the
hospital’s canteen, so the close contacts were put under quarantine. Tracing of
their contacts is under way, Ho said.
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Among other notable cases were seven linked to
the outbreak at the multi-level marketing firm Star Global, which has offices
on Argyle Street Kowloon
Chuang said the CHP got more clues from the
police who helped investigate the outbreak. Their report indicated scores of
sales agents and staff underwent training in the company’s office without
wearing masks.
The CHP will be reaching out to the company and
quarantine all its personnel.
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Also among the new cases were four workers at a construction
site in Sheung Shui, but may not have been from two different contractors. There
were four other cases earlier. She said the companies had been asked to cease
work and arrange tests for their workers.
There were also new cases linked to the Fulum
Restaurant in Tuen Mun and another at the Tao Heung restaurant in Mong Kok.
Two more cases were also reported from homes for
the elderly, one of them from the virus-plagued Kong Tai Care for Aged Centre
in Tuen Mun, where at least two residents have already died from Covid-19.
At Millennium
City
Dr Ho said that for the past 24 hours, 101 patients had
recovered and discharged from hospital, bringing the total recovery to 1,959.
There are currently 1,107 patients still confined in 17
public hospitals and at the community treatment facilities at Lei Yue Mun and
AsisaWorld-Expo. Of these, 34 are in critical condition, 71 are in serious
condition, and 1,032 are in stable condition.
Meanwhile, Ho urged the public to cooperate with
hospital staff not just to protect themselves but others as well.
She made the appeal in relation to an incident
in Tseung Kwan O Hospital
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