A total of 23 students from Yinghua College in Cheung Sha Wan were diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia on two days. They were distributed in 10 classes. Among them, more than 2 students in 4 classes were infected and classes were suspended for a week. The Centre for Health Protection is investigating whether there is a connection between the cases. There are 5 schools with multiple confirmed cases in individual classes, and face-to-face teaching needs to be suspended. Suspected transmission of Omicron BA.4 or 5 appeared in Class 6C of Ma Tau Chung Government Primary School in To Kwa Wan a few days ago. The only case in Class 4C of the school was initially shown to belong to BA.4 or 5. The authorities believe that the two classes are unrelated, and they believe that every teacher and student Daily rapid tests help stop the spread of the virus on campus.
There were 2,268 new confirmed cases in Hong Kong yesterday, including 183 imported cases. The Centre received 321 positive cases from 243 students yesterday. In the past two days, Yinghua College has recorded a total of 23 students with confirmed cases, including 5 students in each of Class 2E and Class 3A, and 3 students in Class 2D and 4C each. The remaining seven cases in the school came from six classes, including Class 2A with two cases.
5 schools to suspend classes for individual classes
Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection, said that follow-up and investigation are underway to investigate why there is a cluster, whether the patients are related or share high-risk activities. She also said that since she only received a report from the school yesterday morning, she temporarily advised classes with more cases to suspend classes according to the guidelines. . The authorities yesterday also advised 5 schools to suspend classes in classes with more than 10% of the students diagnosed, including the Hong Kong Federation of Educators Wong Chu Biu Secondary School, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, Chit and Cheng’s Kindergarten, and Tuen Mun Government Primary School.
The authorities continue to investigate suspected cases of BA.2.12.1, BA.4 or 5 sub-series, and 8 new suspected BA.4 or 5 cases were added yesterday, including a student from the 4C class of Ma Tau Chung Government Primary School who was announced a few days ago. The authorities believe that The case has nothing to do with Class 6C, which had an outbreak earlier, but it cannot be ruled out that the case was spread without knowing it, and it is reiterated that the daily rapid testing of teachers and students can help stop the spread within the school. The remaining suspected BA.4 or 5 cases involved a hotpot diner, the group increased to 16 diners and 3 close contacts, and the source of the other 3 cases was unknown.
Four catering staff at Nethersole Hospital test positive for coronavirus
As for the suspected BA.2.12.1 cases, there were 10 more cases yesterday, including 8 cases whose source was unknown. As for residential care homes, 3 residential care homes for the elderly and 4 residential care homes for persons with disabilities each recorded one resident or staff member diagnosed yesterday. Four employees of the Catering Department of Tai Po Nethersole Hospital have tested positive. They are mainly responsible for preparing meals. The HA emphasizes that the services will not be affected.
Zhang Zhujun pointed out that the average daily number of confirmed cases in the past 7 days has reached 2,000, which is “doubled” compared with regarding 1,000 cases two weeks ago. Coupled with the possibility of re-infection of BA.4 or 5 by foreign experience recovered patients, the public is urged to remain vigilant and not relax epidemic prevention.
Originally published on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/local/cases back to the 2000 level-23 students in class 10 of Ying Wa College diagnosed/327222
