The new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong is still ongoing. The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, said before attending the Executive Council this morning (26th) that the epidemic situation has a good momentum of decline, and Hong Kong people can gradually return to normal. The first phase of relaxation of social distancing measures last Thursday (21st) It is believed that the overall epidemic situation is currently under stable control. Unless the number of confirmed cases suddenly rises, the second phase of relaxation will be implemented in late May. However, she added that the vaccination rate of one elder and one younger is not ideal. Among them, only 74% of the elderly received the first shot, and only 66% of the children received the first shot. A total of 400,000 people in the two groups have not been vaccinated.
She said that the “vaccine passport” has become the biggest incentive for the valley injection. If the public still chooses not to have the injection, “there is no way to think regarding it”, and the use of money as an incentive has never happened in the world.
She also pointed out that as of yesterday (25th), there are 600 schools and regarding 315,000 students can go back to school, the daily quick test is smooth, the secondary school diploma examination is successfully launched, and 30 candidates have to go to the Penny’s Bay special examination room to take the test . She said that there were 431 confirmed cases yesterday, which was a lot lower than that of 10 days ago, and the per capita virus amount of sewage monitoring also dropped by 60% compared with earlier.
