Hong Kong reports 4,274 new COVID-19 cases, 7 deaths

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Hong Kong reports 4,274 new COVID-19 cases, 7 deaths

People stand along Victoria Harbour during the stormy weather in Hong Kong on July 2, 2022. Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the Centre for Health Protection, said at a news conference that the new cases comprised 3,807 local infections and 233 imported cases. She added that the city's death brought the city's death toll to 9,334.

Monday's figure is slightly lower than the 4,274 infections reported on Sunday.

Chuang said that 103 of the imported cases were discovered at the airport, 98 at quarantine hotels and 32 after their quarantine. Forty-five came from the United Kingdom, 27 from the United States, 18 from India and 12 from Canada.

She said that 402 schools reported 541 students and 151 teaching staff testing positive this morning and over the weekend. Eleven schools suspended some in-person classes due to infections, including two linked to two school buses.

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Chuang said that the infections that involve the Omicron subvariants BA were caused by them. On Monday, 5 increased, accounting for 12.7 percent of new cases, which is higher than 10.4 percent reported on Sunday.

In the same briefing, Lau Ka-hin, chief manager of the Hospital Authority, said that the seven patients who passed away included four men and three women, aged 66 to 88 years old. Two of them did not receive a single vaccine jab.

Lau said one of the patients was a 66-year-old man who had an accident on Aug 6 and his death might not be due to the coronaviruses.

Lau said that paediatricians reported an increase in the number of children with croup or the inflammation of the larynx and trachea.

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A 20-month-old baby girl tested positive on Friday and was brought to a hospital yesterday after she vomited and had a fever and shortness of breath.

The trachea of the baby was inflamed and expanded, causing obstruction to breathing. Lau said that her condition had stabilized on Monday when she breathed, and there would be a hissing noise when she was breathing.

We encourage parents with children with COVID. There may be trachea and throat inflammation. He said that if you notice difficulty in breathing, or abnormal chest or abnormal sounds, you should send the child to the hospital as soon as possible.