The epidemic has broken out again in Hong Kong. Hong Kong media said that seven police officers have been infected with the disease within eight days. Including a 41-year-old male sergeant stationed at the airport police district and a 48-year-old male sergeant stationed in the New Territories North. There are also large residential areas that have fallen.
Hong Kong media reported that the latest outbreak of the residential area is located in Kowloon’s Regent Garden, December 9, a total of seven confirmed cases, including five people living in Regent Garden Block 6, the other two live in Blocks 4 and 18.
Yuen Kwok-yung, a chair professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong and an expert adviser to the government, visited Regent Garden on the morning of Dec. 10 to understand how the virus spread. Health officials said some of the confirmed cases at Regent Garden were related to a previous cluster of dancing infections.
Information shows that Regent Garden is one of the largest public housing estates in Hong Kong, with 22 residential buildings, 32 to 34 stories high, providing nearly 6,000 residential units.
Yuan Guoyong said in an interview after the inspection, as the Regent Garden Block 6 has become an “infected area”, in order to avoid more people infected, Block 6, all the residents of D-room units, the day will be sent to isolation camps; as for other units of residents, they need to undergo mandatory testing.
For a number of confirmed patients in the district, some residents of Regent Garden interviewed by the media expressed concern that there are invisible patients in the district to spread the virus, so that the epidemic spread in the district, and they will try to stay at home.
Since mid-November, the outbreak of the Chinese communist virus has broken out again in Hong Kong, with thousands of people diagnosed so far.
In the past eight days, seven Hong Kong police officers have been infected. A 37-year-old female police correspondent and a 48-year-old male sergeant, both stationed at the New Territories North Regional Headquarters Command and Control Center, have been diagnosed.
The police said, after arranging for a group of colleagues who may be in close contact with female police officers to be tested, the male sergeant was also found to be infected with the disease. He fell ill on December 3, 2 days later than his female colleagues, but still at work 2 days after the onset of the disease, the day of the diagnosis on the 6th, still went to Tai Po Fu Ying Men shopping mall Wan Fang ice room.
As the Department of Health listed the male sergeant as “epidemiologically linked to local cases,” meaning that the male sergeant may have been infected by close contact with his female colleagues without source of infection.
In addition to the above two confirmed police officers, the other six infected police officers, including three police officers stationed at the airport police district on December 8 evening preliminary diagnosis, including a 41-year-old male sergeant, a 32-year-old male police officer and a 28-year-old male police officer.
In addition, a 43-year-old female police officer stationed at the New Territories South Crime Prevention Office was initially diagnosed on the evening of December 9, and a 54-year-old male police officer stationed at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Court was diagnosed on the 6th, but the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) has not yet released the diagnosis number and latent period whereabouts of the male police officer until the early hours of December 10.
The latest wave of the epidemic, in addition to the emergence of a large group of infected places such as dancing, there have been two large residential areas with more confirmed cases, including Richland Gardens and Kwai Shing West Estate, of which 22 people have been infected so far in Kwai Shing West Estate.
According to Radio Television Hong Kong on November 23, Hong Kong has 50 new local cases of the CCP virus involving dancing groups, with a total of 132 cases in the group, making it the largest infected group since the outbreak. At least seven venues are involved, including restaurants, music studios and dance schools, and a total of 21 venues will be temporarily closed.
On November 25, the news said that the infected group from the dance group has accumulated 187 people infected, becoming the largest infected group, many of those affected are celebrities and rich women.
In response to the spread of the epidemic, the Hong Kong government announced on December 8 to further tighten preventive measures, including from the early hours of the 10th, banned food establishments in the evening after 6 p.m. dine-in; banquet activities to reduce the number of people to 20; restaurants are limited to two people per table, the maximum number of customers is 50% of the number of seats, bars will continue to close. Entertainment and party venues, sports centers, etc. will all be closed. The mask order and the two-person gathering limit will remain in place.
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