By The SUN
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| CHP's Dr Chuang led most of the daily press briefings on the pandemic |
After two and a half years of
giving daily press briefings on the coronavirus spread in Hong Kong, health
officials signed off today, as they reported 5,190 new infections.
Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the
Centre for Health Protection, who had mostly steered the press conference held
every 4:30pm every day, including Sundays and public holidays, announced that
they would be issuing press releases on new infection figures starting
tomorrow.
However, she said officials
would still meet the press if necessary.
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| PINDUTIN PARA SA DETALYE |
She also said
it was not likely that Hong Kong could go back to having zero infections, when
asked for a reaction to a government health adviser’s comment that Covid has
become endemic.
“I think
whether it’s become endemic depends on the situation worldwide because Hong
Kong is an open place,” Chuang said.
“Right now we
still have several thousand cases [a day], and it’d be rather unlikely for us
to go back to zero... From what we can see now it seems we will have to co-exist with Covid for sometime," said Chuang.
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She declined
to respond to a question on how they felt leading Hong Kong’s vigorous campaign
to ward off the pandemic, saying it was inappropriate, but thanked the public
for their patience and cooperation.
“I hope everyone can keep up that way and work
hard so that we can all resume our normal lives soon,” Chuang said.
She noted how
people in Hong Kong had helped reduce the number of cases of Covid and other
upper respiratory diseases like the flu through mask wearing and frequent
hand-washing or using hand sanitizers.
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“I hope this
is the last Covid-19 press conference and want to take this chance to wish
everyone good health and happy lives.”
The daily
press briefings were halted briefly just before the third wave of infections,
but were resumed when the cases started shooting up again.
Hospital
Authority’s Dr Gladys Kwan reported seven new deaths, involving six men and a
woman aged 72 to 93. They pushed the death toll in the fifth wave to 9,893.
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Kwan also explained that the HA had to add 153 Covid-related deaths after reviewing their data from the height of the fifth wave between February and April this year. The overall death toll in Hong Kong has now been pushed up to 10,106.
Kwan also said
that 2,114 Covid patients are receiving treatment in hospitals, including 41
who are in critical condition and 34 with severe symptoms. Fourteen of those
listed as critical are receiving intensive care.
Of the latest infection tally,
152 were cases that were imported from 33 different countries, of which the
following had more than 10: United Kingdom, 25; Singapore, 13; and United
States, 12.
Fifty-three of the cases were
detected on arrival at HK airport, 55 on days 1 to 3 at quarantine hotels, and
38 between days 4 and 7.
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PADALA NA!
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