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Author: Li Enci Zheng Cuibi
2020-06-30 23:20
Last update date: 2020-06-30 23:20The New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic continued. The CHP received notification from the Mainland Customs about a group of confirmed cases involving 11 people. Nine of them had stayed in Hong Kong for several days. They were exempted from mandatory quarantine. They were arranged by the company to stay at Dorsett Tsuen Wan Hotel.
Liang Zichao, chairman of the Medical Association’s Advisory Committee on Infectious Diseases, said that the risk of infection on ships is very high and the government should review the arrangements for exempt persons, including arranging virus tests for them. He also said that ships usually have equipment such as beds, toilets, showers, etc., so that the crew can live for a long time. Therefore, it is not necessary for some crew members to go ashore, and the authorities need not exempt all crew members from quarantine.
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The government should arrange testing for quarantine exempt persons
Liang Zichao, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Infectious Diseases of the Medical Association, said that the risk of infection on board is very high because of the closed environment on the ship, the low air exchange frequency leads to air circulation, and the crew stays for a long time; as long as one of the crew is landed and infected When you return to life, it is easy for cross propagation.
He pointed out: "Exemption from quarantine does not mean that it is not reasonable." The government should review the arrangements for exempt persons, including arranging virus detection for them, for future tracking. He also said that ships usually have equipment such as beds, toilets, showers, etc., so that the crew can live for a long time. Therefore, he believes that it is not necessary for some crew members to go ashore, and the authorities do not need to exempt all crew members from quarantine.
As for the Dorsett Hotel in Tsuen Wan where the confirmed crew members had stayed, Liang Zichao believed that the CHP should closely follow up, thoroughly clean the places where the patients had been, and arrange virus testing, supervised medical surveillance or quarantine for the staff who had contacted the patients according to the situation.
Liang Zichao, chairman of the Infectious Disease Advisory Committee of the Medical Association. (Profile picture)
Zhang Shitian, chairman of the Seamen’s Union, said that MSC’s container ships are moored in Hong Kong from time to time, but it is not possible to determine whether the “Flavia” is carried by the diagnosed person. He said that in general, shipping companies recruit crews around the world. If the vessel is about to berth in Hong Kong and the hired person buys an arrival ticket, they will arrange for the crew to arrive in Hong Kong two or three days earlier, check into the hotel, and wait ferry. The "shift" is usually in the form of "one for one". For example, 9 people boarded the ship this time, which means 9 people disembarked, but the people who disembarked were not necessarily Hong Kong people, or simply returned to China by plane in Hong Kong. He understands that no one in Hong Kong has been hired as a crew member of this company.
9 foreign crew members are exempted from compulsory quarantine and reported no symptoms
The CHP received notification from the Mainland Customs about a group of confirmed cases involving 11 persons. They are all crew members of the container ship MSC Flavia. The ship was originally scheduled to land in Ningbo on June 26. The ship had a total of 24 people. Among them, 11 crew members arrived in Ningbo and were tested positive by the local customs for viral diseases. Of the 11 crew members, 9 boarded the container ship in Hong Kong on June 24, of which 6 arrived in Indonesia from Indonesia, 2 from Greece and 1 from Croatia from June 21 to 23. All people declared no symptoms when they arrived in Hong Kong. The Center for Health Protection stated that all 9 were foreign men, aged between 26 and 50. They are exempted from compulsory quarantine. During their stay in Hong Kong, they were arranged to stay at Dorsett Tsuen Wan and did not go out to other places. It is worth noting that the address of the hotel is close to the Kerry Logistics warehouse in Kwai Chung, a small outbreak site diagnosed by four employees earlier.
Of the nine people, two were found to have a fever when they arrived in Ningbo, and the remaining seven were asymptomatic. The center has contacted the mainland health authorities to obtain further information on the case.
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