By The SUN
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| CE holds up a care pack with rapid test kits, masks and medicines to be given away to residents |
Health authorities have reported a total of
10,405 confirmed cases of Covid-19 Friday, the lowest in a month. Four of the
cases were imported while the rest were all locally acquired.
Among them, 5,827 were confirmed from rapid test
results submitted to a government platform while 4,578 were from PCR tests done
by government and private laboratories.
The cases took Hong Kong’s coronavirus tally in
the fifth wave to 1,098,998.
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The death toll continued to mount, with 192 cases
being reported, including 162 that happened Friday and 30 that occurred
earlier.
There are now a total of 6,749 deaths in the 5th
wave, raising the death rate to 0.61%.
Dr Albert Au of the Centre for Health Protection
said that a thorough analysis of the Covid-linked deaths will be made in future
to see how many of them were actually caused by the infection.
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Responding to a reporter’s questions, Au also
confirmed that there was one apparent case of a false positive result from a
RAT being reported to CHP. Police are already investigating the case.
He also said daily random sampling of the positive RAT results submitted showed only about 10% of the patients tested negative in confirmatory PCR tests. The patients were sent to Penny’s Bay for isolation and further tests.
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In these cases, he said the individuals concerned
were asked for more details, like why the result was negative only a day after
the report was made, what brand of testing kit they used, and their exposure to
other infected persons.
Au gave several possible explanations for the
negative test results like the submitted RAT was a false positive result or
they gave a wrong sampling date so that they would have already recovered by
the time the PCR test was conducted.
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He said those who want to report an infection that
happened more than two days earlier should not use the online platform but send
an email to ratp.gov.hk.
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Meanwhile Dr Larry Lee of the Hospital Authority said the newly
reported fatalities were mostly aged 65 and above, and half of them resided in
care homes.
But they also included younger patients like a 21-year-old man who
was bedridden and had a chonic ailment. He was initially taken to Siu Lam
Hospital where he tested positive for Covid-19.
On Mar 22 he had shortness of breath and was transferred to Tuen
Mun Hospital where his condition turned serious. He died at 2am yesterday.
Lee said that a total of 10,654 patients are being treated in
various public hospitals and infection control centers. Among them are 35
patients in critical condition (20 of them unvaccinated) while 48 are in
serious condition, and 105 are in intensive care.
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| The care packs will have 20 rapid test kits and KN95 masks and Chinese medicines |
Earlier, the government said it plans to start sending out anti-epidemic packs to all Hong Kong households at the start of next month, and the deliveries should be completed within a week.
The announcement was made by acting home affairs minister Jack
Chan who joined Chief Executive Carrie Lam at her daily conference.
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The package will include 20 rapid test kits, 20 KN95 masks and
Chinese medicines.
Chan said the packs will be distributed through the Housing
Authority, building management firms, the Heung Yee Kuk and volunteer groups.
Residents who fail to get a pack for some reason will be able to
obtain one from collection points to be set up later.
CE Lam said that by giving out the test kits, the government hopes
people will be encouraged to check themselves for Covid more often so infections
can be detected earlier.
She also hit out at a Chinese language daily that she said had published
a misleading information about Sinovac.
Reports said she was referring to an article in Ming Pao that said
a big majority of vaccinated people who died in the Omicron outbreak had
received the Sinovac jab.
The CE said she was “very aggrieved and actually very angry” at
the report as it sent the wrong message to the elderly people, their relatives
and the whole community.
The CHP had earlier denied the report, saying both the Mainland-made
Sinovac and German manufactured BioNTech vaccines are effective in lowering the
mortality rate.
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