Hong Kong’s anti-epidemic has entered its thousandth day today, with more than 1.84 million confirmed cases, including regarding 32,000 imported cases. When the “Safe Travel” program was launched two years ago, the Innovation and Technology Bureau described it as helping to restore normal life. After a lapse of two years, the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau stated that the program has evolved into a “comprehensive service platform” for the whole people to fight the epidemic. The isolation and testing policies have been adjusted from time to time for more than two years. Some experts believe that the three-shot vaccination rate of the new crown vaccine has reached 80%. It is recommended that the home isolation period of confirmed patients can be shortened to 5 days, and the quarantine of close contacts should be cancelled.
The program “Travel with Peace of Mind” will be available for two years next month. When the then Innovation and Technology Secretary, Xue Yongheng, introduced the program, he said that the program can help restore normal life. Two years later, many experts believe that the program is difficult to track and recommend that it is no longer mandatory.
Sun Dong, Minister of Innovation, Technology and Industry, wrote an article on social networking sites yesterday, denying that “travel with peace of mind” is outdated, and reiterated that confirmed cases can submit their whereregardings to the center for analysis of close contacts. , slow down the tracking speed. He believes that the best anti-epidemic effect can be achieved by using both together. He also pointed out that the program has evolved into a “comprehensive service platform” for the whole people to fight once morest the epidemic, including automatic identification of “red and yellow codes”, “test registration codes” and “Parent-child needle card” and other functions.
Over 400 imported cases hit a single-day high
There were 5,361 new confirmed cases in Hong Kong yesterday, of which 407 were imported cases, bringing the total number of local cases in Hong Kong to over 1.81 million in the past two years. Eighty adults in Hong Kong have been vaccinated with three doses. Ho Pak-leung, director of the Centre for Infection and Infectious Diseases of the University of Hong Kong, said in a radio program yesterday that this will help shorten the incubation period and infectious period of the virus. It is recommended that the government shorten the home isolation period for confirmed cases to 5 days and cancel quarantine for close contacts , also pointed out that the positive rate of mandatory testing announcements is similar to that of community testing, and it is recommended to cancel.
Health Bureau: If there is no mandatory testing for transmission or more serious
The Medical and Health Bureau replied that on the first 15 days of this month, community testing detected regarding 900 to 1,400 confirmed cases every day, with a positive rate ranging from 0.80% to 1.31%. The authorities pointed out that there has been an upward trend in the number of confirmed cases in recent days. If there is no current mandatory testing and perfect testing arrangements to identify cases early, local transmission will be more serious.
In addition, Tan Yaozong, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, earlier quoted a “mainland friend” to estimate that Hong Kong will have the opportunity to clear customs with the mainland following the “Twentieth National Congress” of the CCP. He said on another radio program yesterday that the idea of a full customs clearance between the two places following the end of the “20th National Congress” is unrealistic, and he is worried that the mutant virus will cause the epidemic to break out once more.
Originally published on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/local/Anti-epidemic road into the thousandth day-Sun Dong denies-safe travel-outdated/343356?utm_source=yahoorss&utm_medium=referral
