The Hospital Authority today announced that it will activate five more designated clinics tomorrow to cope with the rapid and huge increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 patients.

The five newly activated designated clinics are Violet Peel General Out-patient Clinic, Aberdeen Jockey Club General Out-patient Clinic, Tseung Kwan O (Po Ning Road) General Out-patient Clinic, Fanling Family Medicine Centre and Yan Oi General Out-patient Clinic.

The clinics are activated for confirmed cases of COVID-19 to help provide diagnosis and treatment for people with positive test results and are presenting with relatively mild symptoms of infection requiring medical advice while awaiting admission to hospitals or isolation facilities.

As at 5pm on February 27, the nine designated clinics have provided over 13,000 attendances.

The authority advised patients to call the selected designated clinic to make an appointment.