Macau: Last Covid-19 patient leaves hospital; no patients, no dead – officials

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Macau: Last Covid-19 patient leaves hospital; no patients, no dead – officials

5:17 CAT | 06 Mar 2020

Photo: Lusa

The last patient in Macau admitted to hospital with Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, was released on Friday, the region’s director of health services has announced.

“There are neither patients in hospitals nor dead from the new coronavirus,” said Lei Chin Ion at the daily news conference of the New Coronavirus Contingency Coordination Centre.

Macau has been without new cases of Covid-19 disease for 31 days now, after registering a total of just 10 cases.

After 34 days in hospital, the 64-year-old patient who has been released is now convalescing in isolation at a public health clinic in upper Coloane, added Lo Ick Long, a doctor at the Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, the region’s main hospital.

The man was admitted to hospital on 1 February and was confirmed as Macau’s eighth case of Covid-19, he said.

In the last 24 hours, Lo added, of 132 tests carried out by the public health laboratory, all had come back negative.

He indicated that 65 people from high-incidence areas had entered Macau by 9 a.m. on Friday and all were now under medical observation: 44 at home and 21 at Pousada Marina Infante, a hotel on Taipa island where an isolation centre has been set up since 30 January.

Of the group under medical observation, 58 are residents of Macau, three are tourists or workers from South Korea, three are tourists from mainland China, and one is a tourist from Hong Kong, officials said.

Macau police reported that 66,000 people entered and left the region on Thursday, an increase of 7.5% over the previous day.

“We have also seen an increase in the entry and exit of residents,” with about 24,000 people entering (6.4% more than on Wednesday) and about 24,000 leaving (8.8% more), said police spokesman Lei Tak Fai, reiterating the authorities’ call to the population to avoid crossing the border.

The Covid-19 epidemic, which began in December in China and which can cause respiratory complications such as pneumonia, has caused 3,385 deaths and infected more than 98,000 people in 87 countries and territories, including nine in Portugal. Of patients infected, more than 55,000 have already recovered.

In addition to 3,042 deaths in China, deaths have been recorded in Iran, Italy, South Korea, Japan, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Thailand, the US, the Philippines, San Marino, Iraq, Switzerland, Spain, the UK and the Netherlands.

Source: Lusa