Public health medicine specialist Gabriel Leung has warned that a recent increase in the number of people going out means the infectivity rate of the coronavirus is poised to also rise within the next few days, RTHK reports. Leung said this means that every infected person can be expected to pass on the pathogen to one other person, and described this projected increase in infectivity as “worrying”. If the Rt is below one, that means the outbreak would shrink and the number of cases would decline. Leung said the projection is based on new data suggesting that people have been travelling around Hong Kong more recently. Some infections have recently been traced to these flats, and the government has had trouble tracking down all the close contacts.

Source: The Standard August 17, 2020 13:41 UTC