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The trend of Hong Kong confirmed cases after starting COVID-19 vaccination plan

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Infectious diseases
Medical virology

Abstract

The COVID-19 vaccination plan was officially launched on February 26 and implemented five months already. 480,000 people were completely vaccinated and around one-third population (280,000 people) were receiving the first dosage of vaccination. Is there any effect to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic vaccination plan?
According to the Centre for Health Protection data, there are 1506 confirmed cases from 1/2/2021 to 18/7/2021 including 658 males and 848 females. It has 1427 Hong Kong and 79 Non-Hong Kong residents. They are classified as 255 local cases (Hong Kong), 598 epidemiologically linked with local cases (Hong Kong), 636 Imported cases (Other countries), and 11 Epidemiologically linked with imported cases (Other countries).
Based on the above information, the number of confirmed cases decrease sharply within February to June, it is nearly ten times. From February to March, the major confirmed cases are local and epidemiologically linked with local cases. However, local and epidemiologically linked with local cases drop down between February to April. The imported cases become the major source of confirmed cases and only observe a few local cases. Female confirmed cases are much higher than the male. (To be continued)...

DOI

10.21608/mid.2021.97232.1195

Keywords

Confirmed cases, COVID-19 vaccination plan, Hong Kong

Authors

First Name

Siukan

Last Name

Law

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Affiliation

Department of Science, School of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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siukanlaw@hotmail.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-0454-2048

First Name

Albert Wingnang

Last Name

Leung

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Affiliation

School of Nursing, Tung Wah College, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Email

albertleung@twc.edu.hk

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Orcid

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First Name

Chuanshan

Last Name

Xu

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Key Laboratory of Molecular Target and Clinical Pharmacology, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 511436, China

Email

xcshan@163.com

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Volume

2

Article Issue

4

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28168

Issue Date

2021-11-01

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2021-09-02

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2021-11-01

Page Start

608

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610

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2682-4132

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2682-4140

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Letter to the Editor

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1,165

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Journal

Publication Title

Microbes and Infectious Diseases

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The trend of Hong Kong confirmed cases after starting COVID-19 vaccination plan

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Created At

22 Jan 2023