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Patients who have been to Hubei Province and hospitals on the mainland will be covered by the expanded scope of monitoring, and all pax on flights from Wuhan would be required to fill out a health declaration form, health minister secretary Sophia Chan said. #WuhanPneumonia

Dr Tony Ko, chief executive of Hospital Authority, said each of the 7 public hospital clusters would open a special clinic within 48 hours when the authority found the city at risk of having its first local case of #WuhanPneumonia.

Health secretary Sophia Chan insisted that the notification system between HK and mainland was "effective" and the health dept has been in "uninterrupted contact" with its national level counterpart. Chan said if HK would have more cases doesn't depend solely on notification.

Communicable Disease expert Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan said the major increase in newly recorded cases indicated that many of the cases might not be related to the Huanan Seafood Market and the latest risk assessment by @WHO is ''limited human-to-human transmission''.

@WHO Hospital Authority chief executive Dr Tony Ko said the "special clinic" was "space made from existing outpatient services areas in public hospitals", and the hospitals would have to move some quotas for regular foloup visits to spare resources for patients of the special clinic.

@WHO Director of Health Dr Constance Chan said the gov would consider further expanding the scope of monitoring if other parts of mainland China also had major outbreak.
Chan dodged the question whether the gov got notification from national authority at the same time as the public.