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New Coronary Pneumonia|One article clearly sees the "additional spicy" anti-epidemic measures

2020-07-14T15:12:38.120Z


The epidemic rebounded. Hong Kong added 52 confirmed cases today (13th), while local cases accounted for 41, breaking the highest record on a single day. Chief Executive Lin Zhengyue led a number of government officials this evening to announce the tightening of anti-epidemic measures, which will take effect in the early hours of Wednesday for 7 days. Including restaurants, daily meals are not allowed during the "six to five nights" period, and only takeaways are available; 12 categories of listed premises, such as game console centers and fitness centers, are also closed, and public transport passengers must wear masks. "Hong Kong 01" integrates a series of relevant measures for readers to facilitate understanding of the latest situation.


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Written by: Chen Shuxia

2020-07-13 22:40

Last update date: 2020-07-14 01:38

The epidemic rebounded. Hong Kong added 52 confirmed cases today (13th), while local cases accounted for 41, breaking the highest record on a single day.

Chief Executive Lin Zhengyue led a number of government officials this evening to announce the tightening of anti-epidemic measures, which will take effect in the early hours of Wednesday for 7 days. Including restaurants, daily meals are not allowed during the "six to five nights" period, and only takeaways are available; 12 categories of listed premises, such as game console centers and fitness centers, are also closed, and public transport passengers must wear masks. "Hong Kong 01" integrates a series of relevant measures for readers to facilitate understanding of the latest situation.

▼The third wave of new measures (15/7-21/7) ▼

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New regulations on government social distance:

Passengers on public transport must wear masks, and offenders can be fined 5,000 yuan.

The maximum number of restaurants per restaurant has been reduced from the current 8 to 4 and will be implemented from Wednesday.

Restaurants are not allowed to provide dine-in meals during the "Six Late Five to Five" period. They can only take out food. They will be implemented from 0:00 on Wednesday (15th) and will be reviewed after 7 days.

The bar needs to be closed.

The 12 types of listed places need to be closed, first on the 7th basis, including game consoles, bathrooms, fitness centers, playgrounds, public entertainment venues, "party rooms", nightclubs or nightclubs, karaoke venues, Mahjong Tianjiu Le premises, beauty salon, massage parlor. Both theme parks including Disney and Ocean Park must be closed.

Re-launch the 4-person limit order, wedding exemption, but it must be less than 20 people, and no food or supplies can be supplied. There is no limit on the number of funerals. It will be implemented from Wednesday for two weeks to the 28th of this month.

Withdrawal of exemptions from religious activities in groups, that is, no more than 4 religious activities. It will be implemented from Wednesday for two weeks to the 28th of this month.

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Vehicles must wear masks new regulations:

Anyone who is on board or in public transportation, or when entering or in an area where MTR has paid the fare, must wear a mask at all times, effective from the early hours of Wednesday for 14 days.

Authorized personnel may refuse persons not wearing masks as required to board the vehicle or enter the area, or request the person to wear masks and leave the vehicle or the area. Anyone who violates the relevant provisions commits an offence and is liable to a fine up to level 2 (RMB 5,000).

According to the above regulations, persons under the age of two and who have legal authority or reasonable excuse not to wear masks are exempted, including:

(i) The person cannot wear, wear or remove the mask due to physical or mental illness, injury or disability

(ii) The person putting on, wearing or removing the mask will cause serious trouble to the person

(b) The person is accompanying or assisting another person, who relies on reading lips to communicate with the person

(c) The person is reasonably necessary not to wear a mask to avoid physical injury to himself or others

(d) The person is reasonably necessary to board public transportation or be on public transportation, or enter or be in an area where MTR has paid fare to avoid physical injury, but the person does not have a mask

(e) The person does not wear a mask to do any of the following (but only if the act is legal and reasonably necessary in the circumstances):

(i) Diet

(ii) Taking medicine

(iii) Maintain personal hygiene

(f) In the course of performing their functions, a public official requires that the person remove the mask

According to the latest announcement from the Hong Kong Government, restaurants are not allowed to provide dine-in meals during the "Six Late Six to Five", which will be implemented from the early hours of Wednesday for 7 days. (Profile picture)

New government testing arrangements:

The government will conduct free virus testing for more than 400,000 people in four categories, including staff in residential care homes, restaurant staff, taxi drivers and property management practitioners. It has contacted two private organizations in the Mainland to provide testing services.

New regulations for cross-border transportation and arrivals:

Chapter 599H will introduce a mechanism that empowers the authorities to flexibly implement different conditions according to the place of departure (such as designated high-risk areas) or duties (such as crew members and seafarers) of arrivals, including the possibility of requiring arrival from cross-border vehicles Before arriving in Hong Kong, visitors from Hong Kong undergo the 2019 Coronavirus Disease Test conducted by an accredited laboratory and the result is negative. If the person arriving on the vehicle does not meet the conditions, the health officer or an authorized person acting on the advice of the health officer may prohibit the aircraft from landing in Hong Kong, or prohibit the vessel from entering or staying in Hong Kong waters.

Every operator of illegal vehicles commits an offence and is liable to a maximum fine of Level 5 (RMB 50,000) and imprisonment for six months. If the operator fails to comply with the request for information, or knowingly or recklessly provides any information that is false or misleading in the material terms, the maximum penalty is a fine at level 5 (RMB 50,000) and imprisonment for six months.

As far as passengers are concerned, if a person who arrives in Hong Kong fails to comply with the request for information, or knowingly or recklessly provides any information that is false or misleading in a material way, the maximum penalty is a third-level fine ($10,000) and imprisonment for six months .

The Hong Kong government announced further tightening of social distance measures.

Catering business
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(1) For the catering business, the number of customers in the catering premises shall not exceed half of the usual number of seats in the catering premises at any time, and no more than four people may sit at the same table.

(2) Every day from 6 pm to 4:59 am the next day, except for specific premises (ie premises referred to in Schedule 1 of Chapter 599F, such as hospitals, nursing homes, treatment centers, boarding schools, controlled by the government Or managed premises, as well as certain catering operations designated by the Chief Secretary for Administration under section 5 of the Regulations), the person in charge of catering operations shall cease to sell or supply food or drinks for eating or drinking in the premises of the relevant operations; and if The business sells or supplies food or drinks in a premises (or part of a premises) for eating or drinking in the premises. The person in charge of the catering business must close the premises or the scope (as the case may be). The affected premises will be allowed to continue to sell or serve food and/or beverages by take-out and delivery.

(C) Purely or mainly used for the sale or supply of intoxicating liquor (as defined in section 53(1) of the Dutiable Commodities Ordinance (Cap. 109)), for people to enjoy locally on premises (general It is called a bar or pub) and must be closed. The catering business premises that are purely or mainly used to sell or supply the above-mentioned alcoholic beverages for local consumption must be closed.

(4) Live performances and dancing are not allowed in the catering premises, and karaoke activities and mahjong day nine activities in the catering premises are suspended. Continue to maintain other regulations and restrictions on catering business premises.

Listed premises
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(5) All listed premises are required to stop operating, as detailed below: 

(a) Game machine center;
(b) Bathroom;
(c) Fitness center;
(d) Playground;
(e ) Public entertainment venues;
(f) Set up (or plan to set up) spaces for renting social gatherings (generally called party rooms);
(g) Beauty salons;
(h) Usually for people to drink alcohol, and dance or do other entertainment 1. Venues open until late at night (generally called nightclubs or nightclubs);
(i) karaoke venues;
(j) Mahjong Tianjiu play premises; and
(k) massage parlors (except those exempted, see Annex II).

(6) The meeting place must be closed except for the catering premises.

  The above measures for the catering business and listed premises will take effect from July 15, 2020 for a period of seven days to July 21, 2020.

Group gathering
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(7) The limit on the number of group gatherings in public places will be tightened from fifty to four, and will take effect from July 15, 2020. With the exception of those who are exempted, group gatherings in public places will continue to be prohibited during the fourteenth day from July 15, 2020 to July 28, 2020.

(8) In response to the latest restrictions on the number of group gatherings, the government will adjust the exempt group gatherings under Chapter 599G accordingly (see Annex III), including: 

(a) Exempt from group gatherings of not more than 20 people at the wedding, Provided that no food or beverages were served at the wedding;
(b) Tighten the number of shareholders' meetings of listed companies held in accordance with any regulations or other regulatory instruments regulating the operation or affairs of the company. No food or beverages can be served at the meeting, and the capacity of each room or partition can be tightened from no more than 50 people to 20 people; and
(c) the exemption from religious activities for group gathering.

  All other instructions issued by the Secretary for Food and Health earlier under Chapter 599F and Chapter 599G (that is, the instructions effective on July 11 and July 3, respectively) will be temporarily procedurally suspended on July 15 Undo.

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Source: hk1

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