By The SUN
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| Police say there has been a 60% surge in phone scams in the past 7 months (RTHK photo) |
Police on Wednesday warned of a surge in telephone scams in which swindlers pose as government officials, in particular those with the Centre for Health Protection.
At a press conference, police said 213 such cases were reported to them in the first months of the year alone.
They were among 956 phone scam cases recorded during this
period, up 60% from the same period last year, with the victims losing a total
of $400 million.
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CHP’s Dr Albert Au said that health authorities only call people for contact-tracing or investigations,
including to check whether they complied with compulsory testing notices.
He advised people to be cautious when they get calls from unfamiliar numbers, especially those with the prefix “+852", to avoid falling prey to scammers.
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Meanwhile, CHP also announced that an additional
5,687 new Covid infections were recorded, including 146 imported cases.
Dr Gladys Kwan of the Hospital Authority said nine more patients, – aged between 66 and 92 – were reported to have passed away on Tuesday. Seven of them did not complete three doses of a vaccine.
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A total of 2,402 patients are currently being treated in public hospitals, including 54 who are in critical condition, of whom18 are in intensive care, and 46 with severe symptoms.
Kwan again said that the HA is looking at resuming non-essential services since there have been improvements in the number of hospital admissions, bed occupancy rate, and the percentage of serious cases.
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"For non-essential services suspended previously, there may be room for some of them to be resumed. We are discussing that. We do not have any hard indicators whereby we will activate a certain stage, because this is a rather mobile decision, it depends on a basket of factors and also data we have," Kwan said.
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