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| Schools reported more than 1/3 of all local infections because of the long holiday weekend |
Health officials
reported 1,841 new Covid infections Monday, with 196 of the cases imported.
Of the 1,645 local
cases, 600 - or more than a third - were reported from 421 schools. They involved
485 students and 115 staff members.
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Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of
the Centre for Health Protection said that while the number of cases from schools appeared
to be unusually high, they were an accumulation of infections from the long
holiday weekend.
Four schools were told to suspend certain classes for a week, after recording at least three infections each. These are Ma Tau Chung Government Primary School, Leung Kui Kau Lutheran Primary School, Tung Koon School (Sheung Shui) and Sam Shui Natives Association Huen King Wing School.
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Two students at the Ma
Tau Chung school were found to carry the more infectious BA.4 or BA.5 Omicron
sub-variant which health experts say could become the main Covid strains in the
city.
Five more residential
care homes reported new infections, involving four residents and one staff
member.
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Of the imported infections,
an unusually high 145 cases were detected at the aiport, 37 at quarantine
hotels and 14 after the seven-day hotel quarantine.
The total tally from
the fifth wave has now gone past 1.24 million.
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No new death was
reported, so the overall tally remains at 9,192.
Genome analysis showed
11 more cases involving the BA.4 or BA.5 sub-variants, while there were an
additional 34 patients found to carry the BA.2.12.1 strain, of which 20 were
untraceable.
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There are now 787
Covid patients admitted at public hospitals. They include 13 who are in
critical condition, three of whom are in intensive care; while 15 are in
serious condition.
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