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(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Hong Kong’s Fourth Wave of Continuing Epidemic Experts Interpret Mandatory National Testing Implementation
China News Service, Hong Kong, Nov 30 (Reporter Wang Jiacheng) The fourth wave of the new corona pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong continues, and the voices of all sectors of society for the implementation of mandatory tests for all the people are getting higher. A reporter from the China News Service interviewed Xu Shuchang, an expert government consultant, and Ge Peifan, chairman of the Health Affairs Committee of the Legislative Council of the Special Administrative Region, and asked them to interpret the implementation of the mandatory tests .
The executive director of the Special Administrative Region, Carrie Lam, held a press conference on the 30th to announce that the epidemic prevention measures will be reinforced again, including reducing the number of “assembly restrictions” from 4 to 2 and of civil servants working from home. In terms of testing, Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor pointed out that the government adopts multi-pronged test work, requiring all inspections, all inspections that need to be inspected, and all inspections voluntarily, to make the public feel comfortable.
As for why mandatory national tests are not implemented directly, Xu Shuchang, an expert consultant to the SAR Government and senior lecturer in CUHK’s Respiratory System Department, said that national tests should cooperate with the “order of the home” to get better results. Hong Kong is densely populated. Many residential buildings, including public housing, have 30 or 40 stories. They are not administered in different districts like the mainland. Life supplies may not be guaranteed to reach more than 7 million people. Hong Kong’s local population is more diverse and there are many internationals. Corporate compliance is relatively low, making it difficult to implement mandatory testing by all people. Furthermore, he went on to point out that a single test may not be able to confirm certain safety. It is not ruled out that there are cases in which the virus has been latent for more than 14 days, so he also proposed taking the sample again on the 19th.
Member Ge Peifan, chairman of the Health Affairs Committee of the Legislative Council of the Special Administrative Region, believes that epidemic prevention and work against the epidemic “is better than short-term pain.” Especially in the current fourth wave of the epidemic, it can be said that the 18 districts of Hong Kong have only a few (invisible patients), if only a specific group of mandatory tests is required, I wonder if the effect can be achieved. Earlier, many medical experts, including Zhong Nanshan, said that Hong Kong should conduct tests across the country. “Citizens understand that the epidemic prevention measures will be tightened again for a time, but many citizens prefer that the government be more aggressive. If Hong Kong has not been able to control the epidemic, it will be difficult for citizens to suffer. The bubble Tourism is desperate and they do not know when they will be able to pass customs with the mainland. It is expected to implement national tests and cooperate with the household. “
Hu Dingxu, chairman of the Huasheng Diagnostic Center and a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, said in an interview with the media that if Hong Kong wants to clear customs with the mainland as soon as possible, the tests large-scale are the only solution. He believes that the SAR government’s mandatory testing of high-risk groups has taken an important first step, such as continuing to expand the mandatory testing groups, such as drivers, disciplinary forces, teachers and students, restaurant employees, etc., to then the proportion of mandatory tests can be close to national tests, so it does not have to be limited by whether it is national tests.
He also suggested that Hong Kong implement mandatory large-scale age, region and group testing. Sampling methods and locations can also be diversified. For example, self-collected sampling bottles at subway stations and convenience stores, mobile collection vehicles, or street stations. Sampling bottles; More community sampling centers can be established to facilitate citizen sampling.
In the latest epidemic prevention measures announced on the same day, Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor specifically mentioned that the SAR government will increase its testing capabilities. The daily distribution of specimen collection kits in the 47 general medical centers of the HA will increase from 4,000 to 8,000. The test center will increase from 9 to 14 within this week.
Xu Shuchang introduced that Hong Kong’s current epidemic prevention measures are mainly focused on plugging the gaps and strengthening testing, including increasing the number and distribution points of community quarantine centers and sample collection kits. deep throat saliva test, hoping to facilitate the public; at the same time, the SAR government is also studying After the quarantine is completed on the 14th, people arriving in Hong Kong from abroad should be retested on the 19th or 20th to prevent the epidemic from entering the Hong Kong community from abroad. He also noted that it is estimated that it will take two weeks for the new measures to be effective. He stressed that the current invisible transmission chain is distributed in Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories. Citizens are expected to stay home as long as possible and avoid activities in the community. The time not to wear a mask should also be shortened. (End up)
