Hong Kong to add mystery illness to reportable diseases

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HONG KONG: Hong Kong's health chief said on Tuesday (Jan 7) that a respiratory illness whose cause remains unknown will be added to an official list of diseases that medical practitioners are required to report to the government.

The disease - an unidentified form of viral pneumonia - has sent 59 people to the hospital in the mainland Chinese city of Wuhan, in central Hubei province. As of Sunday, seven were in critical condition, while the rest were stable. Municipal authorities have ruled out SARS, the severe acute respiratory syndrome that killed 700 people in 2002 and 2003.

Speaking at a news conference, the health chief, Sophia Chan, said the"severe respiratory disease associated with a novel infectious agent” will be added to a list of reportable infectious diseases in Hong Kong's Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance.

 

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Saya mengaku

Afraid of upsetting China, HKGov't denied health risk of ChinesePneumonia . They refused to incr transparency, raise alert level at border controls or advise ppl to wear mask If this mysterious disease spreads out fr HK, it's the fault of Carrie Lam AGAIN! StandWithHongKong

Every countries should be aware this ChinesePneumonia. Long holiday for Chinese is coming. I am not discriminating Chinese ppl. But China should release the information of the virus. It helps the world to defeat the new disease

kiwikiwiiu Remember how 🇨🇳 hid all informationabt SARS back in 2003? Their lies caused major outbreak in Asia for the sake of “China national security” once 🤥, always liars WuHanPneumonia chinesepneumonia never forget SARS

y_kitman Mainlanders are spreading the disease to Hong Kong. Don't travel to Hong Kong it's dangerous here. Especially the mainlanders, stop travelling to Hong Kong.

All thanks to ccp's cover-up policy

59 reported cases in Wuhan but 30 suspected cases in 900-km far away HongKong already While no infection in any other part of China? Let me remind you something China ChinesePneumonia

Skip the topic of the possibility of the HongKong government hides the real condition of illness. The government has a low sense of the illness. They don't try to take any precautions to protect the citizens whether illness happens in 2003 or now.

TH98931634 Again, just same as SARS in 2003, the China government just hide all the information of the diseases and the HongKong government have completely no idea to deal with the diseases

1. HongKongProtests might have saved HongKong from another outbreak like SARS, as the number of Chinese tourists as sharply dropped. 2. The flu remains mysterious as the Chinese government is not being transparent and is arresting ppl for spreading news in Wuhan.

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