HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - Hong Kong reported the lowest number of new coronavirus infections on Wednesday (Aug 19) since its latest - and worst ever - outbreak started last month, bolstering hopes that stringent city-wide containment measures can be eased.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG - Hong Kong reported the lowest number of new coronavirus infections on Wednesday since its latest - and worst ever - outbreak started last month, bolstering hopes that stringent city-wide containment measures can be eased.
The city has also seen a decline in the share of cases with unknown origins over the past week, signalling that untraceable infections are dwindling. The Asian financial hub reported 23 new local virus cases on Wednesday, of which only eight had untraceable origins. For the past six days, cases of unknown origins have not crossed the 35 per cent mark, down from the peak of about 60 per cent in mid-July when the virus were quietly spreading in the community.Declining new local cases in Hong Kong as well as a falling proportion of untraceable cases underscores the success of recent social distancing measures in slowing transmission.
A high proportion of such cases forces public health authorities to take blunt and broad action such as shutting down entire cities as they race to stamp out the stealthy novel pathogen."There is no room for complacency in epidemic control," a spokesman for the Food and Health Bureau said in the statement on Monday, warning that the third wave of infections is declining much slower than the second, despite more stringent border and social distancing controls.
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