Liu Yulong, a government expert advisor and a chair professor of the Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, said that when the rate of suspected Omicron BA.4 or BA.5 cases in Hong Kong rises to 80-90%, the number of confirmed cases will have a chance to drop. When it will peak is difficult to estimate. Taking Singapore as an example, he pointed out that at the peak of the epidemic, there were 2,000 confirmed cases for a population of one million. If this ratio is calculated, the number of confirmed cases in Hong Kong peaked when it was between 14,000 and 20,000.
Liu Yulong said on this program “Millennium” that Hong Kong and Singapore have different anti-epidemic measures, and Singapore is more relaxed than Hong Kong. Therefore, he believes that the epidemic will not rise all at once but “slowly rise”, and there is a longer period of time. Volatility, which will rise throughout September. However, he emphasized that it is not advisable to go back in terms of epidemic prevention measures, and the entry quarantine measures should not be tightened to avoid further impact on the economy, and face-to-face classes should not be suspended.
For a 17-month-old baby boy, who developed a high fever on the same day as the first dose of Kexing vaccine earlier, he was confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus after being admitted to the hospital, and he needed to be admitted to the intensive care unit for treatment. Liu Yulong said that the baby boy is currently in stable condition, but he is still unconscious and in a moderate coma. He said there was a variety of evidence that the baby boy was diagnosed with the new coronavirus, rather than a high fever due to vaccination.