[Global Times reporter Ye Lan] Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced earlier that nationwide testing will be implemented in March.
She said on March 2 that the relevant measures need to restrict citizens from going out to a certain extent, but the relevant arrangements will take care of the needs of the economy and citizens' daily life. The citizens do not need to worry about the food supply situation. become.
As for the date of the nationwide compulsory inspection, Hong Kong people have different opinions.
According to Hong Kong's "Sing Tao Daily" report on the 2nd, there are some opinions on the Internet that the number of infected people in Hong Kong is already so high, and waiting until late March to test the whole people will cause more people to die from the infection.
Anti-epidemic experts retorted that there are generally two timings for nationwide testing: the best timing is at the beginning of the epidemic, but Hong Kong has missed it; the other timing is when the epidemic is declining, and the transmission chain can be extracted through nationwide testing to avoid a resurgence in the future.
Xu Shuchang, an expert adviser to the Hong Kong government, said that the number of confirmed cases is likely to drop in late March, which is the right time.
He explained that if testing is done at the peak of the epidemic, it will find a large number of cases, but it is likely that there will be insufficient isolation facilities; while testing when the epidemic is gradually receding will help find potential cases.
Xu Shuchang suggested that the time for each round of testing should be shortened, and the interval between three rounds of testing should not be too long to balance the impact on the public.
The team led by Leung Cheuk-wai, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, said that only by keeping the number of infections at a low level can the effectiveness of nationwide testing be maximized and truly zero.
He believes that the introduction of universal testing at a time when infection numbers remain high, isolation and treatment facilities will not be sufficient and should be postponed until mid-April or the end of April.
Kong Fanyi, co-convenor of the Expert Committee on the Evaluation of Clinical Events of the New Crown Vaccine, said on the 2nd that the vaccination rate of the first dose of the new crown vaccine in Hong Kong is nearly 90%, and the infected people will form an "immune barrier". The rate of decline of the epidemic.
He suggested that national testing can be done "once every 3 days" for 3 times in a row, without foot restraint, which will have less impact on the public; greater effect.
When Lin Jianfeng, a member of the Executive Council and vice-chairman of the Pakatan Harapan, suggested on social media that the SAR government should implement nationwide testing, it should announce the specific plan and actual operation at least 10 days in advance, including listing the priority of confirmed cases for admission or isolation arrangements, and the categories of people exempted from quarantine. And so on, to avoid the outside world's own interpretation, causing controversy.