The epidemic has eased and Hong Kong continues to strictly prevent infection: The Hong Kong government envisages increasing the four aspects of epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic measures
[Global Times Special Correspondent in Hong Kong Ye Lan] The epidemic in Hong Kong is showing signs of easing.
Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health, announced on the 3rd that there were 41 new confirmed cases in Hong Kong that day, of which one was imported and the remaining 40 were local.
Previously, on the 2nd, there were 35 new confirmed cases in Hong Kong, the lowest since November 21 last year, but cases of unknown origin have remained high in the past two weeks, accounting for an average of 35% of all cases.
In response to the mutated virus in the UK, the Hong Kong government banned all British passenger flights from entering Hong Kong on December 22 last year until further notice.
However, British Airways announced on the 2nd that it will resume flights from Hong Kong to London, England from the 3rd. Its official website shows that it will arrange a flight from London to Hong Kong every day starting from the 11th of this month.
A British Airways spokesperson explained that the Hong Kong side has not yet lifted the relevant entry restrictions and will cancel the incoming flight in the next one or two days and arrange refunds or transfer to other destinations.
Cathay Pacific Airways of Hong Kong said that from December 21 last year to January 10 this year, it cancelled all flights from the UK to Hong Kong, but maintained flights from Hong Kong to the UK.
At the same time, as of 9 a.m. on January 2, the Hong Kong Immigration Department has received enquiries and requests from about 180 Hong Kong residents stranded in the UK. It has provided relevant information in real time and provided feasible assistance according to their wishes, and contacted them when necessary. The Chinese consulate in the local area followed up.
The Hong Kong Food and Health Bureau announced that all persons who have stayed in the UK or South Africa for more than two hours on the day of boarding or 21 days before will not be allowed to board the flight to Hong Kong.
Respiratory specialist Liang Zichao believes that according to the data collected now, although the mutant new pneumonia virus that appears in the UK will not be more lethal, the virus is more contagious. The Hong Kong government should not relax entry restrictions on British people in the short term. .
On the 2nd, Hong Kong added two more cases of the British variant virus, and another new case of the South African variant virus.
There are a total of 10 cases of the British variant virus in Hong Kong and 2 cases of the variant virus in South Africa.
In terms of education, a new survey released by the teachers’ union shows that about 60% of the teachers interviewed agree to arrange for primary six (primary sixth grade), secondary six (senior third) and students who participated in overseas public examinations this school year to return School class.
The survey also shows that 47% of the teachers interviewed believe that the biggest difficulty in online lessons is the teaching problem, because students are affected by the environment and it is difficult to concentrate on class; 21.3% of teachers said that the biggest difficulty is correcting electronic homework.
Labour councillor Lu Songxiong said that some parents reported to him that he hoped that classes could be resumed as soon as possible.
In order to prevent the epidemic from rebounding again, the SAR government envisages to increase the four aspects of epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic measures, including studying the establishment of Bluetooth transmitters in restaurants and other places, and automatically recording the whereabouts of people in and out of the mobile phone; for close contacts of close contacts Perform virus testing; perform regular testing for medical staff and expand the scope of forced testing.
The Hong Kong government hopes to achieve "zeroing" through four-pronged approach.
Fortunately, Hong Kong can be vaccinated in February at the earliest.
According to Hong Kong’s "Sing Tao Daily" report on the 3rd, Secretary of Civil Service Nie Dequan revealed on social platforms that the Hong Kong government will vaccinate citizens as soon as next month, and citizens can go to community vaccination centers, public hospitals, nursing homes, Vaccination in private hospitals and clinics.
Government expert consultant Xu Shuchang said that because the storage conditions of Coxing and Oxford vaccines in the UK only need to be 2 to 8 degrees, citizens can be vaccinated in outpatient clinics of the Hospital Authority and the Department of Health or private doctors’ clinics. Fosun and the German pharmaceutical company BioNTech The jointly developed vaccine needs to be stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius. The vaccine will be vaccinated by the government in the community hall.