Why is the number of infections still rising in Hong Kong despite the launch of Hong Kong's square-cabin hospitals?

There are four reasons: First, square pod hospitals are being built to move patients with less serious illnesses and relieve pressure on hospital beds. Second, there are still many local infections in Hong Kong where the source of infection has not yet been identified. Third, close contacts in cluster infections are being diagnosed one after another. Fourth, there are still imported cases coming into Hong Kong.

Square-cabin hospitals in Hong Kong are now in operation and have begun to arrange for the transfer of patients in an orderly manner. Most of the hospitals in Hong Kong are already at capacity. Public hospitals are basically full and the utilization rate of medical resources has reached 70% to 80%. Private hospitals are usually preferred by more people due to price and other issues, but because of the overcrowding of public hospitals they have been shifting one after another to private hospitals for medical treatment. And private hospitals usually don't have as strong a stockpile of medical equipment as public hospitals, so it's a challenge for the hospitals as a whole.

The construction of the square pod hospital is to transfer the less sick patients for centralized isolation and treatment, while easing the pressure on hospital beds, so that seriously ill patients can receive timely and effective treatment. Recently, the professionals from Wuhan who are building the hospitals have arranged to arrive in Hong Kong one after another, and they will provide professional advice and share their management experience for the construction of the hospitals, which will help the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to control the epidemic more effectively and to protect the lives and health of Hong Kong people.

New Crown Pneumonia outbreak has already been spreading in the community in Hong Kong, and the source of many infections has yet to be identified. Previously, when the outbreak was effectively controlled in Hong Kong, the source of infection identified by the government could be categorized into clusters of each confirmed range, and close contacts associated with the clusters could be centrally isolated, thus bringing the outbreak under control.

The resurgence of the outbreak in Hong Kong now involves clusters of not only homes for the elderly but also restaurants, which are densely populated and make source identification difficult. At the same time, scattered cases in some buildings, public housing estates and residential areas can only be recognized as local infections, but the source of the infection has not been effectively identified. In addition, the HKSAR government has arranged nucleic acid testing for high-risk individuals, but the large number of samples and lack of manpower for testing have led to a series of problems.