By The SUN
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| It's the 4th straight day that the daily tally has topped 10k |
Health authorities on
Saturday said they had recorded 14,377 new Covid-19 infections, including 698
imported ones.
Another 21 Covid patients
have died.
Among those recently reported
as having come down with the coronavirus was Labour Secretary Chris Sun, who
had been in isolation since Friday after one of his family members tested
positive.
The daily tally was
significantly higher than the 13,924 reported on Friday, and marked the fourth
straight day that the caseload had topped 10,000.
However, a health expert said
Hong Kong should now be regarded as living with Covid-19 because he estimates
that over 90 percent of people living here may have been infected already.
Dr David Hui said that
although the daily tally has gone up to more than 10,000, most of the patients
only have mild symptoms, and only about 20 are in serious or critical
condition.
With its high vaccination
rate, the city has already built a barrier against severe symptoms. But there
is still a need to boost vaccination to further maintain the low number of
people getting seriously ill because of Covid.
He
suggested that the anti-pandemic rules be eased some more, saying that because
of the high transmissibility of the Omicron variant, the number of infections
is bound to go up.
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