[Mother Abigail]

The following is jointly issued by the Department of Health and the Hospital Authority: As at 3pm today (19 Mar 2003), the admission statistics of patients who have been in close contacts with atypical pneumonia patients are as follows:

A. Staff of Hospitals/Clinics (numbers in brackets are those with symptoms of pneumonia)

Staff of Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH) admitted to: Prince of Wales Hospital 49 (49)

Kwong Wah
Hospital 3

(1) Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) 1 (1)

Tseung Kwan O

Hospital (TKOH) 1 (1)

Staff of Kwong Wah Hospital (KWH) admitted to: Kwong Wah Hospital 2 (2) * Note 1

Staff of Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital (PYNEH) admitted to: Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital 7 (7)

Staff of Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) admitted to: Queen Elizabeth Hospital 4 (2)

Staff of a Private Clinic in Mong Kok admitted to: Princess Margaret Hospital 4 (4)

Tuen Mun Hospital 1 (0)

Staff of a private hospital on HK Island admitted to: Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital 3 (3)
Sub-total (A) 75 (70)

B. Medical students (numbers in brackets are those with symptoms of pneumonia) Medical students Prince of Wales Hospital 17 (17) * Note 2

C. Other Patients * Note 3 (numbers in brackets are those with symptoms of pneumonia)

Patients, patients' family members & visitors PWH, PMH, KWH, PYNEH, QEH, TKOH & Queen Mary Hospital 58 (58)

Total admissions (A + B + C) 150 (145)

Note 1: One of the health care workers was discharged.

Note 2: One of the medical students was discharged.

Note 3: The Department of Health and Hospital Authority have been closely monitoring the clinical condition of inpatients with pnuemonia symptoms. The total number of admission is released after collating, analysing, and confirming the clinical symptoms and test results of the patients concerned. The total number of "other patients" included those who have been admitted earlier.
Meanwhile, 5 patients with atypical pneumonia died recently in the following public hospitals:
Kwong Wah Hospital (1 patient);

Princess Margaret Hospital (1);

Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital (1);

Prince of Wales Hospital (2).

The Department of Health has launched a dedicated website on atypical pneumonia to provide health advice on the prevention of respiratory tract infection and latest information on the cases. The websites are (English content) and (Chinese content).

[Judith Anne]

So all of the cases in your last two posts are in the far east, this does not count the possible cases in the US, Australia, Spain, Germany, Canada, etc.?