(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Commentary: Hong Kong’s cumulative diagnosis of Wanda breaks Wanda to “zero” and still requires the unity of the whole people

　　China News Service, Hong Kong, January 24th, report title: Hong Kong’s cumulative number of confirmed diagnoses exceeded Wanda’s “clearance” and still requires the unity of the whole people

　　China News Agency reporter Zeng Ping

　　On January 23 last year, Hong Kong had the first confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia; on January 23 this year, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Hong Kong exceeded 10,000.

The dates and figures may coincide. What is more worthy of in-depth summary is the efforts, experience, and effectiveness of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in fighting the new crown pneumonia.

The epidemic in Hong Kong is still recurring, and achieving the goal of “clearing zero” still requires firm determination and shared commitment from the whole society.

　　For a long time, Hong Kong has maintained a high frequency of commercial and personnel circulation with the world. At the same time, the local neighborhoods and residential areas are narrow and crowded. This undoubtedly makes the city face a lot of both "outside import" and "internal proliferation". Difficulty involving objective factors.

However, after experiencing the "SARS" epidemic in 2003, the Hong Kong SAR government has been more fully prepared to deal with the highly contagious epidemic; there have been painful memories, in the face of the new crown epidemic, Hong Kong citizens also have and maintain a high degree of epidemic prevention awareness.

　　On January 25 last year, which coincided with the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Gengzi Year, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government raised the response level for new coronary pneumonia to the highest level of "emergency." The horn officially sounded.

In the face of the first and second wave of epidemics, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government has effectively investigated the epidemiological history of the confirmed cases under the “containment” strategy, and closely followed their close contacts, and achieved a lot of results worldwide. Similar economies have better anti-epidemic effects.

On July 4 last year, Hong Kong recorded 21 consecutive days of "zero confirmed" locally, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases was controlled at 1,259.

　　The third wave of outbreaks followed in Hong Kong, and the proportion of confirmed cases from unknown sources increased, reflecting that the effective "containment" strategy in the past is no longer so effective.

On August 2 last year, Hong Kong recorded more than 100 new diagnoses in a single day for 12 consecutive days, and the epidemic became extremely severe.

During this wave of epidemics, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government has introduced a series of more stringent epidemic prevention measures, including tightening the number of people gathered in public places to two, closing high-risk business premises, and further restricting dining hours in restaurants.

　　When Hong Kong was hit hard by the epidemic, just as Hong Kong experienced difficulties in the past, the central government once again extended a helping hand to serve as a strong backing for the SAR.

At the request of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, two mainland support teams, coordinated by the Central Government and organized by the National Health Commission, assisted Hong Kong in fighting the epidemic in terms of nucleic acid testing of the new crown virus and the construction of a Hong Kong version of the "square cabin hospital".

　　The former includes about 570 inspectors from Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. They work day and night in the temporary air film fire eye laboratory set up in the Hong Kong Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park Gymnasium to help Hong Kong complete the universal community testing program.

This is the only time Hong Kong has implemented universal community testing so far, and the project was successfully concluded on September 14.

On the following day, Hong Kong’s new cases were cleared for the first time since the third wave of the epidemic.

　　The latter's temporary hospital built next to the Asia World Expo was completed on January 20 this year.

This hospital is now called "North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Center" and has about 820 negative pressure beds.

Together with the addition of community treatment facilities completed in early October last year, the central government has added about 1,800 hospital beds to Hong Kong's response to the epidemic, which has greatly strengthened the anti-epidemic capabilities of the Hong Kong medical system.

　　This makes Hong Kong more prepared to deal with the fourth wave of epidemic that is now raging.

Although social distancing measures have once again been tightened to the most stringent level since the epidemic, the fourth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong since late November last year has been repeated, and the decline has been significantly slower than the previous wave.

In addition to continuously summing up the experience of fighting the epidemic, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam promised in the "2020 Policy Address" that he will strive to achieve the goal of "zeroing out".

　　One of the characteristics of this wave of epidemic is the emergence of a singing and dancing group that spread the virus to all districts in Hong Kong. Many cases may be unidentified due to multiple layers of untrackable transmission. In addition, some citizens have appeared The number of confirmed cases in Hong Kong has soared due to factors such as fatigue.

In order to control the epidemic, the SAR government has launched a number of unprecedented anti-epidemic measures, including: for the first time to enclose people in Jordan’s "restricted areas" for mandatory testing, require foreign arrivals to be quarantined at designated hotels, and prohibit including Hong Kong residents Those who have traveled to some severely affected countries boarded the plane and came to Hong Kong.

However, Hong Kong is still far away from "clearing".

　　Fighting the epidemic can be described as short-term pain better than long-term pain.

The enclosing of designated areas by the SAR government for enforcement reflects its determination and will to fight the epidemic, and if necessary, it should decisively expand to more areas in the future.

The new crown vaccine brings hope for people to return to normal life, but it takes time for the vaccine to arrive in Hong Kong and vaccination, and it should not be used as the only way to return to normal economic life.

The most urgent task at the moment is that the whole society of Hong Kong must be more determined and united to move towards "zeroing".

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