By Daisy CL Mandap
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| 18 Covid cases have been traced to Rack's City, a bar and pool venue in Central (File) |
Health officials reported 851
new Covid-19 infections on Saturday - a jump of nearly 180 from the day before
- but assured that the rebound in cases has not led to more people getting
hospitalized.
"Fortunately, we have
not observed any increase so far in the [hospital] admission figures and the
number of serious and death cases," Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for
Health Protection said at the daily press conference.
"So we'll closely
monitor the situation to see whether there's any increase in the burden on the
health care system."
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Chuang said other indicators
of the pandemic like the positive rates for sewage and lockdowns and the
reproductive rate of the virus have seen a slight increase recently, so they
will continue to monitor the situation.
She declined to give an
opinion on whether social distancing measures ought to be tightened anew because
of the increase in the number of cases.
Of the new cases, 491 were
confirmed through PCR tests and the remaining 360 were self-reported rapid test
results that were confirmed by laboratories.
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Imported cases made up 74 of
the total, and of these, 30 were detected at the airport on Jun 9 and 10; 31
were found at quarantine hotels; and the remaining 13 after the patients had
left isolation.
Two outbreaks were again
found in bars in Central and Sheung Wan – Racks City on Wyndham Street where 18
cases have been detected, and FLM on Jervois Street where 12 customers have
tested positive.
Chuang said the one of those
linked to FLM had earlier visited LINQ on Pottinger Street, another Covid-hit
bar, and health officials are still looking if there is a link between the two
clusters.
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Another bar, Shuffle at Lan
Kwai Fong, added five more infections, raising the total number in the cluster there
to 118, comprising 112 customers and six staff.
Despite it being a weekend, some
Covid-19 cases were reported by schools, including another student at class
4B of Po Leung Kuk English Primary School in To Kwa Wan. To date, 14 infections
have been reported in this class.
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Two more unlinked cases involving the Omicron sub-variant, BA.2.12.1, have been detected. These are a 57-year-old woman who works as a dishwasher at Cathay Pacific’s lounge at the airport and a 61-year-old woman who lives in Wo Che estate in Shatin.
The total infection tally
from the fifth wave now stands at 1,205,703 while the death toll remains at
9,177 since no new death was reported yesterday.
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In the past 24 hours, 55
patients have recovered and 50 have been discharged.
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