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| The rule that not more than 2 people can gather in public has been extended for another week |
The Hong Kong government
has extended for a week gathering restrictions which include a ban on
gatherings of more than two people, and the mandatory wearing of face masks in
public places.
The restrictions, which are due to expire tomorrow, were
imposed amid a record surge in coronavirus infections.
But for the first time in nearly two weeks, the total
Covid-19 tally in Hong Kong dropped to below
100 today, Aug 3. A total of 80 cases were reported by health officials, all
of them locally acquired.
The death toll also climbed to 37, with two more elderly
patients succumbing to Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, while confirmatory
tests on another patient who died on Saturday showed he did have Covid-19.
The latest to pass away was an 83-year-old man confined at Tuen Mun
Hospital Queen Elizabeth
Hospital
At the same time, tests taken on an 88-year-old man who died
at United Christian Hospital
Dr Sara Ho of the Hospital Authority reported that 1,243
patients are currently hospitalized in 19 public hospitals and at the isolation
facilities in Lei Yue Mun and AsiaWorld-Expo.
Among them, 43 are in critical condition, 49 are in serious
condition, and 1,151 are in stable condition.
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| The AsiaWorld treatment facility can accommodate as many as 500 patients |
As of noon today, 56 patients were in the AsiaWorld-Expo facility,
and about 200 were in Lei Yue Mun. About 300 others had been moved to
second-tier isolation beds to make room for new patients in the first-tier beds.
A total of 78 patients were discharged from hospital today,
raising the total number of recoveries to 2,037.
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Two more patients were linked to the Caritas Medical Centre
cluster, which included a doctor and a patient. Two other people were earlier
diagnosed in the same ward.
A total of 50 staff and patients in the ward have been
classified as close contracts and were isolated for observations.
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Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health Protection
apologized for mistakes made in the cases of two patients who were mistakenly
diagnosed as positive for Covid-19.
The two, a resident in Tsz Wan Shan and an employee at
Caritas Evergreen Home, were later found to be negative of the disease, and
have since been discharged. Their case numbers have since been transferred to
two positive patients.
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