#COVID19 cases 🇭🇰 (February 2nd)

• new cases: 116

• local: 103

• local unknown source: 30

• local linked: 73

• imported: 13

• Total cases: 14,442
🇭🇰 Hospital Authority COVID-19 update February 2nd

active cases: 1,367

critical condition: 1 📈
serious condition: 0
stable condition: 1,219

pending admission: 31
tbc: 116

New discharged: 20
Total discharged: 12826
% discharged: 90.37%

New deaths: 0
Total deaths: 213
Critical case: #13400, 77-year-old female with chronic conditions including diabetes. Currently in ICU at Queen Mary Hospital.

Unvaccinated.

Delta variant.
Hospital Authority confirming this 👇

There will be wristbands involved for those on home discharge.

Can't start just yet, need to get the wristbands sorted.

50 to 60 patients per day will fit the criteria by tomorrow.

Hospital Authority says this new discharge criteria will apply to both Delta and Omicron variant cases. No distinction will be made.
(Some) areas with unknown source cases:
Kornhill
Sai Yin Pun
Cheung Sha Wan
Wong Tai Sin
To Kwa Wan
Lam Tin
Tseung Kwan O
Sha Tin
Fanling

(there were more, I couldn't write them all down)
Delta/Omicron breakdown today:

17 x Delta variant

71 x Omicron variant

19 x pending results
(someone is having a serious coughing fit during this press conference - you'll hear it in the Dr Chuang video coming up)
HA doesn't know what the number of tests (or where) is for home isolation of discharge patients. The Dept of Health is organising that.
Dr Chuang: The trend is increasing. Because of short incubation of Omicron, confirmed cases may have already infected others. Difficult to contain.
7 day moving average local unknown source cases Image
3rd v 4th v 5th wave local Image
3rd v 4th v 5th 7 day moving average local cases Image
Active cases 5th wave Image
*end of press conference*

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More from @tripperhead

Feb 4
Chief Executive Carrie Lam:

• Epidemic is getting worse. Outbreak worst we've seen throughout the pandemic

• Omicron has high transmissibility

• Seen many vertical/horizontal transmission. Doesn't involve the structural issues of buildings this time Image
• Delta cases are dropping. Hoping we have that outbreak under control

• More and more alerts sent out via the sewage monitoring system. They are all over the territory.

• Our strategy is still dynamic zero infection. Hope to cut the transmission as soon as possible.
• Many ways to test. There's lockdowns. Most vigorous way of testing. Then there's CTNs. People are allowed to leave their premises, but need to get tested. Then there's testing on a voluntary testing. If you're concerned, you can get tested. Similar to what was done Sept 2020
Read 25 tweets
Feb 4
#COVID19 cases 🇭🇰 (February 4th)

• new cases: 131

• local: 130

• local unknown source: 59

• local linked: 71

• imported: 1

• Total cases: 14,715
CHP Controller Dr Edwin Tsui: There are now around 250 unknown source cases since the 5th wave began.

There have been ~20 vertical/horizontal transmission events.
Local cases:

3 x Delta variant - all linked

123 x Omicron variant cases

4 x pending results
Read 15 tweets
Feb 4
I have bowed to public pressure and added a PayMe option (Ko-fi is still there too).

The link is in my bio.

And thanks to these legends for the lucky money! 💪 ImageImage
Sorry everyone, apparently I need to verify my account. Hold on!
And now I'm stuck in a HSBC endless loop of useless.
Read 4 tweets
Feb 3
While I'll keep covering them, the CHP press conferences at this point are almost worthless for accurate information.

Dr Chuang: there's 122, no 121 local cases, 91 linked, 31 unknown source (yes, i know that doesn't add up)

Actual: 121 local cases, 88 linked, 33 unknown
And earlier I said there were 20 imported cases, but there are 21. I said there were 20 imported cases, because there were 20 imported cases on the sheet they handed out!

Case #14590 miraculously went from "nil" travel history, to being onboard Finnair AY101.

🤷‍♂️
Anyway, rant over. Do it all again at 4.30pm today.
Read 4 tweets
Feb 3
#COVID19 cases 🇭🇰 (February 3rd)

• new cases: 142

• local: 122

• local unknown source: 31

• local linked: 91

• imported: 20

• Total cases: 14,584
🇭🇰 Hospital Authority COVID-19 update for February 3rd

active cases: 1,455

critical condition: 1
serious condition: 0
stable condition: 1,245
pending admission: 67
TBC: 142

New discharged: 53
Total discharged: 12880
% discharged: 89.95%

New deaths: 0
Total deaths: 213
7 day moving average of local unknown source cases Image
Read 12 tweets
Feb 2
Chief Manager (Quality and Standards) of the Hospital Authority, Dr Lau Ka-hin:

• 'When the Ct value of the sample is higher than 30, we cannot detect the virus. So home quarantine post-discharge is safe for families.'

Then why was the cut-off so high before?
I cannot accept that @hkumed "only just" realised that the virus couldn't be detected at Ct 30+ TWO YEARS INTO THE PANDEMIC.
@hkumed Not blaming HKUMed here. It sounds like Dept Health is using them as a scapegoat to change the discharge criteria because the hospital system is being overloaded.
Read 4 tweets

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