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| Today's tally is the highest since April |
Health authorities
reported 3,762 new Covid-19 cases Saturday, the biggest number since the
Omicron surge that began early this year eased in April.
Of the new infections,
229 were imported, including 107 detected at the airport, 103 in quarantine
hotels and 19 after the travelers had ended their seven-day isolation.
As before, the biggest
number of imported infections had come from the United Kingdom with 43 cases,
18 each from Singapore and Thailand, and 17 from the United States.
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One related death was
reported, involving a 72-year-old man who was unvaccinated and had cancer. His
death took the overall mortality tally from the fifth wave to 9,220.
Ho also reported a
number of outbreaks in various hospitals, including Tai Po Hospital, where four
more cases were detected at the male ward of the psychiatry department.
Two staff and two
patients tested positive Friday after another patient was found infected on
Wednesday.
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The three patients
were moved to isolation wards at the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital and
are in stable condition.
At the Hong Kong
Buddhist Hospital, a 49-year-old female patient tested positive at the
palliative ward, raising the infection tally there to 15. Earlier, nine other
patients and five staff were found infected in the same ward.
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At Queen Elizabeth
Hospital, two more patients in the orthopedics ward caught Covid, after a
patient who just had surgery was found infected. Apart from the three patients,
three nurses also tested positive, amounting to six infections in total.
Ho said there are now
1,108 patients being treated in public hospitals and treatment facilities.
Among them, 20 are in critical condition, including four who are in intensive
care; while 27 are seriously ill.
She said the hospitals
are still able to cope with the caseload for now, but if the number of
infections continues to rise, there could be problems later on.
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Health Secretary Lo
Chung-mao has said in earlier interviews the infections could double by the coming
week, leading to some 10,000 people being hospitalized by September.
The upward trend is
seen to be caused partly by the silent spread of highly infectious Omicron
sub-variants in the community.
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The Centre for Health
Protection today detected 73 more cases of the BA.2.12.1 Omicron sub-variant,
of which only nine were linked to previous infections.
A further 32 cases of either
the BA.4 or BA.5 sub-variant were also found, half of which were unlinked.
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