Political situation
Written by: Zheng Rongdi, Luo Jiaqing, Pan Xiqiao, Zhen Yiheng
2020-07-19 14:01
Date of last update: 2020-07-19 16:21The third wave of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic continues to expand. According to the news, more than 100 new diagnoses have been confirmed in a single day today (19th). In the past few days, several government employees have been diagnosed successively, including 3 immigration staff and one customs officer. And an intern at the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department.
The Chief Executive, Lin Zhengyue, will hold a press conference at 4 pm today (19th). It is expected to announce a series of measures to strengthen epidemic prevention, including announcing the arrangements for civil servants to work from home.
Lin Zhengyue announced a number of measures. The first is that the government will only provide emergency and necessary services from tomorrow. Civil servants work from home for seven days. About 60% of civil servants still have to work. The second measure is to hold a special guild and amend the regulations to force all people to wear masks in indoor public places.
Lin Zhengyue expects to hold a press conference to explain the latest epidemic prevention measures. (Profile picture)
Evening banned for 7 days
[16:19] Starting from last Wednesday, the restaurant banned eating after 6 pm. Lin Zheng announced that the effective period of the relevant measures will be extended by seven days.
[16:15] Lin Zheng announced the latest contingency measures. Starting from tomorrow (20th), various policy bureaus and departments only provide emergency services. Most counter services are suspended. Regarding civil servants working from home, various departments will announce details later. Lin Zheng emphasized that nearly 60% of civil servants must go to work to provide emergency services, including disciplined forces and anti-epidemic work.
[16:09] Lin Zhengyue said that he held a high-level government meeting this morning and learned that there are more than 100 newly diagnosed cases today, setting a new high for a single day. This outbreak is mainly local, which is more serious and more difficult, because there are many groups involved, including taxi drivers and nursing home staff.
The Secretary for Food and Health Chen Zhaoshi said today (19th) that the Civil Service Bureau has instructed heads of departments to group employees and arrange employees to work at home when appropriate. She said that the authorities will review the relevant practices and emphasized that they must not forget that the public has certain expectations for government services and will try to balance them as much as possible.
In March this year, the government arranged for civil servants to work from home, but the epidemic broke out again in recent months, and the government has not made the same arrangement. The Chief Secretary for Administration, Zhang Jianzong, recently stated that society has misunderstood whether civil servants are working from home, referring to the fact that more employees worked at home when the first wave of outbreaks occurred because of the shortage of anti-epidemic materials such as masks, but the current anti-epidemic materials are sufficient and the government is working Additional protective measures were added to the site.
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