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Written by: Commentary Editing Room
2020-07-25 07:00
Last update date: 2020-07-25 07:00The third wave of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong continues, with the number of confirmed words exceeding 100 days. On Thursday (23rd), a public in Yuen Long found a number of middle-aged men from the Mainland who were wearing long sleeves and hand straps, and they called the police for help. District Councillor Shi Jingcheng quoted the police as saying that the other party had just entered the country from Shenzhen Bay and was heading to the reported address in Shimen for quarantine. However, he "took the wrong train" to Yuen Long and there was no "hand-carrying person" leaving the quarantine area. The police later sent the hand strap to a nearby bus stop and left, but the incident has aroused community concern. Recently, the epidemic situation in Hong Kong is severe, and the medical system exceeds the burden. Factors that may cause community transmission should be avoided.
On Thursday (23rd), eight middle-aged men pushing luggage boxes appeared on Datang Road. As everyone wears long-sleeved shirts nowadays in the hot weather, the neighbours suddenly felt suspicious, and they were surprised to find that the other party was wearing a hand strap. (District Councillor Shi Jingcheng's Facebook photo)
The department should arrange pick-up
The original intention of requiring people arriving in Hong Kong to be quarantined is to prevent potential patients from wandering into the community during the incubation period of the virus. However, the current practice of people arriving in Hong Kong taking public transportation to quarantine after entering Hong Kong on their own has inevitably made the public worry about the virus spreading crisis. The persons involved first appeared in the downtown area of Yuen Long, and then according to the information of the district councilors, they even reported that they took the E34B and got off the car at the Tung Chung Fire Station, which was completely opposite to the originally reported direction of Shek Mun. In recent days, the weather has been hot and the persons concerned wore long-sleeved shirts and wandered the streets, which inevitably made people think that they deliberately covered the hand straps and deliberately concealed the identity of the isolated persons.
After the police officers at the scene took the quarantine person to the police car, the police stated that according to the instructions of the Department of Health, they only took the person concerned to the nearest bus stop and boarded on their own. The Department of Health and the police allow them to take public transportation, which cannot ensure that they arrive at the quarantine site as soon as possible, and the measures also violate the original intent of reducing contact. The Department should review the current measures and consider charging people arriving in Hong Kong to arrange transportation and directly sending the quarantined people to the reported quarantine location. The people involved are close to "Hong Kong One Day Tour" when they first arrived in Hong Kong. The relevant quarantine measures are really difficult to reassure the public. Once one of them is diagnosed, it will be difficult to trace the people they contacted during the period.
Whereabouts to be investigated
The whereabouts of the quarantine personnel is unknown. The news about their presence in Tung Chung is still only a "report". Whether the quarantine personnel arrived at the quarantine site within a reasonable time and where they passed on the way, the police and the Department of Health are responsible for investigating . According to the Centre for Health Protection information, people arriving from the Mainland must arrive at the quarantine point on their "quarantine order" within two hours. If the information about their presence in Tung Chung is true, it will be difficult for them to get from Yuen Long to Tung Chung within two hours. Return to Shimen. If the Department of Health and the police determine that the person concerned has violated the quarantine order after investigation, the authorities should decisively enforce the law to act as a deterrent.
Although people arriving at Hong Kong through the airport have collected deep throat saliva samples at the temporary sample collection center, they were allowed to leave only after the result was negative, and then continue to complete the 14-day compulsory quarantine at home or at a designated place. Therefore, treating all people in Hong Kong as "drug broadcasters" is also unfair to these people. However, the number of infections of unknown origin in the community has been increasing recently, and it is unsatisfactory to allow people from Hong Kong to roam around after they arrive. As the saying goes, the 14-day quarantine measures need to be properly implemented.
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