(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Mainland Epidemic Prevention and Control Experts Continue to Inspect Hong Kong's Epidemic Prevention and Anti-epidemic Work
China News Service, Hong Kong, April 20. The mainland epidemic prevention and control experts dispatched by the central government continued to inspect Hong Kong on the 19th. They visited Hong Kong International Airport, Tin Shui Wai (Tin Yip Road) Community Health Center and Sham Shui Po District Health Center to learn about the SAR. Government-related epidemic prevention measures.
On the morning of the same day, the expert team visited the Hong Kong International Airport and visited the No. 1 Temporary Sample Collection Center located in the T1 Midfield Concourse to learn about the quarantine measures and testing arrangements implemented by the SAR government on arrivals.
The expert group also shared the relevant experience of the Mainland on foreign import prevention.
Afterwards, the expert group and the Secretary for Food and Health of the SAR Government, Chen Zhaoshi, visited the Tin Shui Wai (Tin Yip Road) Community Health Centre.
Tang Yiu-keng, Director of the New Territories West Hospital Cluster of the Hospital Authority, introduced to them the role of designated clinics, including treating patients with mild symptoms and prescribing oral medicines for COVID-19 for suitable patients according to the clinical guidelines on medicines.
Mainland experts also shared with medical staff their experience in treating COVID-19 patients.
Mainland experts on epidemic prevention and control visit Sham Shui Po District Health Centre.
The staff of the center briefed experts on the work of distributing free rapid antigen test kits to the elderly.
Photo courtesy of the Information Services Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government
In the afternoon, the expert team visited the Sham Shui Po District Health Centre.
The staff of the center introduced the epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic work of the district health center at the district level to the expert group, including providing vaccination services for the public, distributing anti-epidemic material packages, and organizing anti-epidemic and anti-epidemic education activities.
In addition, the District Health Center will provide free rapid antigen test kits to the elderly aged 60 or above from the 19th to support and encourage them to do more testing.
The Group of Experts also inspected related services.
Chen Zhaoshi said that the SAR government will continue to implement the epidemic prevention strategy of reducing deaths, severe illness and infection.
By rapidly expanding the treatment capacity of public hospitals, triage and stratified treatment according to the condition of COVID-19 patients, resources can be concentrated to treat patients, but at the same time, it will also strengthen the provision of appropriate medical support to the confirmed patients at the community level, so as to prevent patients from becoming mildly ill become severe.
Mainland epidemic prevention and control experts led by Kan Biao, director of the Institute for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, arrived in Hong Kong on April 7 to start work.
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