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New Crown Pneumonia|Democratic Party urges government to conduct tests for Ciyunshan residents

2020-07-18T10:09:11.510Z


The third wave of outbreaks of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong has kept the number of diagnoses in the past few days high, and there have been many cases of unknown origin. The Democratic Party petitioned outside the government headquarters today (18th), requesting the government to upgrade its epidemic prevention measures, implement comprehensive quarantine at the border, and comprehensively test the new crown virus for the residents around Ciyun Mountain to slow the spread of the epidemic in the community.


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Written by: Chen Chuolan

2020-07-18 16:47

Date of last update: 2020-07-18 16:47

The third wave of outbreaks of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong has kept the number of diagnoses in the past few days high, and there have been many cases of unknown origin. The Democratic Party petitioned outside the government headquarters today (18th), requesting the government to upgrade its epidemic prevention measures, implement comprehensive quarantine at the border, and comprehensively test the new crown virus for the residents around Ciyun Mountain to slow the spread of the epidemic in the community.

Hu Zhiwei, member of the Legislative Council of the Kowloon East Constituency of Hong Kong and chairman of the Hong Kong Democratic Party. (Profile picture)

The chairman of the Democratic Party, Hu Zhiwei, asked the government to conduct virus detection for all immigrants to plug loopholes in epidemic prevention. He also believed that the government should target the outbreak of a small community in Ciyun Mountain, and ordered the local district to stop work for two weeks to carry out full disinfection, cut off the chain of transmission, and describe the government’s The current practice is only "small repairs and small repairs", which cannot stop the spread of the epidemic in the community.

District Councillor Wong Tai Sin, Zhang Maoqing. (Profile picture)

Wong Tai Sin District Councillor Zhang Maoqing said that the CHP has distributed deep throat saliva sample bottles to some residents of Ciyun Mountain. However, the situation of the residents in Cile Village is lagging behind, and no testing has been arranged at this stage, worrying that some residents have become invisible communicators. Criticized the government's lack of control over epidemic prevention and caused the virus to continue to spread, requiring the government to test all residents of Ciyun Mountain as soon as possible.

In addition, Hu Zhiwei pointed out that the epidemic caused the Hong Kong economy to halt, and there was a small community outbreak in Kowloon East, which seriously affected the lives of citizens and small businesses. He called on the government to launch a wage subsidy program and set up for employees and merchants who were suspended for two weeks due to the epidemic. Temporary unemployment assistance, and urged the authorities to distribute 10,000 yuan to all citizens in Hong Kong again to relieve their urgent needs.

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Source: hk1

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