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The Hospital Authority said Friday that it will start using the community isolation facility at AsiaWorld-Expo again as the number of Covid-19 patients continue to climb.
An additional 6,645 infections were reported today, the highest since Mar 31. Of these, 185 were imported, and the rest were all locally transmitted.
HA’s chief manager Lau Ka-hin said 1,898 Covid patients are
currently receiving treatment at public hospitals, including the
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Overnight, 256 new patients were admitted, and among them, six were in critical condition, and six in serious condition. They took the overall number of patients in critical condition to 46, including 10 who are in ICU; and 25 in serious condition.
An additional eight related deaths were recovered, involving seven males and one female aged 61 to 93 years old.
As part of the third stage of bed deployments for Covid patients, AWE will provide 200 beds for Covid patients, said Lau, as public hospitals are now 70% full.
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At the same time, more non-emergency services will be stopped at public hospitals because medical personnel will be redeployed.
“We are really worried,” said Lau. “When the infection worsens, the impact on our health system will be great.”
He appealed to people not “to take matters lightly,” and ramp up their protection by ensuring full vaccination not just for themselves but for everyone around them.
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The Centre for Health Protection's Dr Albert Au echoed the call, saying the daily infection tally has gone up more rapidly.
"For the past few days, like since August 15 up to now, we are having a daily increase (from the previous day) of...400 or 500 hundred a day. This is worrying. Probably this is all because of the greater infectivity of BA.5 [subvariant]," he said.
Au also reiterated his concern about the high fatality rate among the elderly, saying 96% of those who succumb to Covid are 60 years old and above. They also make up 80% of those who are in critical condition.
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Among those who died, he said 70% had no vaccination, or did not complete three doses of a vaccine - which experts say is necessary to receive adequate protection against the coronavirus.
He also noted a significant increase in the number of residents in care homes for the elderly or disabled who tested positive for Covid. A total of 13 such facilities reported positive cases today.
In the past week alone, he said 46 care homes had reported a total of 73 residents getting infected, along with three staff members. In these cases, he said the invisible transmission within the facilities seemed to have come from the carers.
Au again brushed aside concerns over the number of imported cases, saying they account for only 4% of the total daily tally.
“Local cases are the major reasons for the rise in infections,” he said.
Of the 185 imported cases, 73 were detected on arrival, 36 during the three-day hotel quarantine, 55 during the medical surveillance period from 4 to 7 days of arrival, and 21 after this period.
However, he said the infections detected after the mandatory quarantine had high Ct values, indicating they were reinfections.
The patients had come from 43 countries, but only six had 10
or more infected travelers: 25 from
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