The epidemic situation in Hong Kong continues to slow down. The Department of Health announced today (29th) that there were 4,269 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Hong Kong, including 4,024 local cases and 245 imported cases. The Hospital Authority announced that five more patients died today.
A total of 9,940 patients have died in the fifth wave of the epidemic so far.
Today, 2 more residential care homes for the elderly and 1 residential care home for the disabled have confirmed cases, each with a resident, and a total of 2 employees were confirmed to be confirmed cases, involving a total of 61 people who were classified as close contacts.
In addition, 373 schools reported a total of 498 cases, involving 426 students and 72 staff, and 4 classes needed to be suspended.
Regarding the case of variant virus strains, according to the samples received by the Public Health Laboratory Service of the Department of Health from the 20th to the 26th of this month, it is suspected to be samples of the Omicron variant virus strains BA.2.12.1 and BA.4 or BA.5 sub-strains , the 7-day moving average ratios accounted for about 3.5% and 87.6% respectively.