New Crown Pneumonia | Lin Zheng: 50 masks will be sent to each household in Shuiquan'ao Village to be expanded to other public housing in the future

Political situation

Written by: Zhou Lixi

2020-07-12 18:22

The epidemic situation of the new crown pneumonia has deteriorated again recently. Chief Executive Lin Zheng Yuee decided to distribute 50 masks, hand rubs and other epidemic prevention materials to all households in the village in response to the outbreak in Shuiquan'ao Village. In the future, the mailbox will also distribute epidemic prevention materials to other public housing estates with confirmed cases.

Lin Zhengzhi said that she chaired a meeting of the expert advisory group on epidemic prevention yesterday (11th) and reviewed the latest situation with four experts. She believed that the repeated epidemic situation was inevitable, so the government continued to adopt a "relaxed and moderate" strategy to increase public awareness of epidemic prevention. Strengthen the ability of virus detection and supervision of hospitals and quarantine facilities.

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In response to the outbreak in Shuiquan'ao Village, Lin Zhengyue said on Facebook that he decided to distribute 50 masks and hand rubbing liquids and other anti-epidemic materials to all households in the village. The first batch of 50 masks and hand rubbing liquids were put into every household at noon today In the mailbox. She said that the same arrangement would apply to other public housing estates with multiple confirmed cases. She had asked the Home Affairs Bureau to contact various associations and regional organizations to distribute masks to the disadvantaged groups; meanwhile, the Secretary of Food and Health Chen Zhaoshi Colleagues from the FEHD inspected the restaurant's measures to ensure social distance today, and sent a mask for employees or customers to the owner.

In addition, the Correctional Services Department, which used to be the only mask production line in Hong Kong, has arranged for inmates to work overtime voluntarily and invite off-duty and retired correctional staff to produce masks 24 hours a day and 7 days a week since February this year. Lin Zheng pointed out that the Correctional Services Department has supplied more than 19 million masks in the past few months. Volunteers have successfully retired at the end of May. The overnight stay for prisoners and overtime arrangements for holidays have also ended in early July.

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Actively study the distribution of the second copper-core mask to the public

Lin Zhengyue said that the government's work on the supply of masks and personal protective equipment is more "in place" than in the past few months. At present, Hong Kong has ample reserves of masks and continuous local production and supply. The Hong Kong government has Staff of old and disabled people’s homes, government contracted workers, etc., provide two daily masks free of charge, and will distribute a pack of 10 disposable adult masks per household to each residential address in Hong Kong. More than 6 million copper core anti-epidemic masks have been distributed by a citizen, and they are actively studying to distribute the second one to the citizens.

Lin Zheng also pointed out that he presided over the meeting of the family advisory board yesterday, and reviewed the latest situation with Liang Zhuowei, Yuan Guoyong, Xu Shuchang and Professor Fukuda, and provided opinions. She pointed out that everyone is worried about the rebound of the epidemic, but also pointed out that before effective vaccines are successfully developed and widely used, or the public has immunity to infections, the epidemic's recurrence is inevitable. The Hong Kong government will continue to adopt a "relaxation" strategy, Improve the public's awareness of epidemic prevention, strengthen the ability of virus detection and supervision of hospitals and quarantine facilities.

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