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Health authorities said they are worried about the continuing rise in Covid-19 cases, as they reported an additional 6,617 infections Monday, 237 of them imported.
The latest tally is about 100 more than yesterday, and is the highest since the end of March.
"For four days in a row, the number of local cases has been over 6,000 per day, so it has picked up a rising trend, and this is worrying," said Dr Albert Au of the Centre for Health Protection.
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He called on the public to protect themselves more by wearing tightly fitted masks and to go for vaccination if they have not yet done so, or need to complete their vaccination.
Five related deaths were reported, involving four men and one woman aged between 63 to 96.
Two of them were found infected after outbreaks in care homes, while the three others did not receive the recommended three doses of vaccines.
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The number of Covid patients now receiving treatment at public hospitals has breached the 2,000 mark for the first time since the mass outbreak at the start of the year began to ease.
Dr Larry Lee of the Hospital Authority said 2,100 patients are in various public hospitals, and 11 of them are in intensive care.
In preparation for an expected rise in cases, the government reopened the community isolation facility at AsiaWorld-Expo, with 200 beds and 100 medical staff being stationed there.
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Lee said AWE facility would primarily accept patients who are not seriously ill but need extra care like elderly people who live alone, patients who are transferred from Penny’s Bay quarantine centre because of some complications, and those who are already in stable condition after being admitted to public hospitals.
In a TV interview earlier, Lee said the number of beds allotted in public hospitals would be doubled to 5,000 from the current 2,000 if the cases continue to increase.
Lee said newly admitted patients now average around 300 per day from the previous 250, while those in severe conditions rose from 20 to 43 this month.
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More noticeable is the rise in the number of young people who are being hospitalized. According to Lee, patients aged below 11 rose in number from 60 to 104 in the past two weeks.
As a result, the occupancy rate for both the pediatric
isolation wards and regular wards in hospitals is not at 70%, while only 20
percent beds at
Of the 237 imported cases, 104 were detected at the airport, 23 during the three-day hotel quarantine, and 89 during the medical surveillance on days 4 to 7. There were 21 who tested positive after day 7, but most had high Ct values, indicating they were re-positive cases.
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The infected patients came from 42 countries, and they
include the following from where more than 10 cases were detected:
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