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2021-03-01 18:00
Last update date: 2021-03-01 18:05
K11 Musea famous tide restaurant group confirmed four new cases on Monday (March 1), a total of 48 cases.
The Hong Kong epidemic was finally suppressed before the Lunar New Year, but it rebounded within a few days, and even second-generation transmission occurred in clinics.
The most urgent task for the government is to find the infected person and cut off the transmission chain as soon as possible. However, in the incident, diners said that the "Travel with peace of mind" app missed the notification of the infection. In addition, the sampling and testing progress was lagging behind, and these deficiencies became anti-epidemic at any time. Loopholes.
One of the major reasons for this outbreak is that the employee was still on duty after the illness became ill and infected diners. The outside world has no way of knowing whether the employee was ill at work because he underestimated his illness, worried about taking leave to reduce income, or other reasons.
In any case, this matter once again reminds the employers that both parties need to understand each other and do not let employees go to work with illness, lest the gains outweigh the losses.
Yuan Guoyong, a consultant to the government expert, said that the ventilation in the restaurant is not enough, and it is suspected that it will cause short-distance transmission.
Yuan Guoyong, Chair Professor of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong, said that the air duct on the G floor of the "Mingchao Restaurant" is too narrow, and the fresh air volume is only one-third of the normal.
(Photo by Lao Minyi)
Encourage use by improving the function of the program
The government forces the public to scan the "Travel with peace of mind" code or handwritten records when patronizing restaurants. A group of restaurants will appear soon. The society will strictly examine whether the measures can help control the epidemic, that is, send a notice of potential infection to the same diners as soon as possible. Pay attention to changes in your own health, but the effect does not seem to be satisfactory.
The Centre for Health Protection believes that the confirmed cleaner of the restaurant is a super spreader, and infers that he spread the virus to multiple diners the day after he became ill on February 19.
After the outbreak of the group case, the media successively received complaints from customers of the store on the same day that they had not received the program, and they had to check themselves.
When the Innovation and Technology Bureau and the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer responded to media questions, they promoted the usefulness of the program, including successful records that learned that a confirmed person had visited the restaurant, and found close contacts of the confirmed person to submit for inspection, and reiterated that users only need to follow the confirmed diagnosis. Appears on the same scene, the program will also notify the user, the missing notification may be related to the downloader’s mobile phone or network.
The biggest function of the "Travel with Peace" app is to inform users of the risk of infection. If this function fails, it will definitely weaken citizens' confidence in the program, and may cause more citizens to abandon paper and pen records that are more difficult to trace.
The OGCIO must strengthen the regular performance maintenance and debugging scheduling of the program, and encourage users to report problems about the program, and even consider listening to requests for open source code so that everyone can brainstorm and improve the finished product.
On February 17th, at the mobile sampling station in Tsuen Wan, citizens lined up to be tested for the new crown pneumonia virus.
(Photo by Yu Junliang)
Sampling detection delays to prevent the epidemic
In addition to the lack of infection tracking, the sampling and testing process has also been blocked.
Around the Lunar New Year holiday, the government expanded the scope of compulsory testing to multiple industries, hoping to find cases of invisible infection in the community as soon as possible.
"Hong Kong 01" estimates that at least 550,000 employees are required to undergo mandatory testing on a regular or irregular basis. This does not include regular testing for medical patients and sudden mandatory testing for employees such as K11 Musea and residents of the building. .
With the ever-increasing demand for sampling and testing, local laboratory equipment and manpower may begin to be overwhelmed.
In the past, the government stated that Hong Kong could collect samples and conduct 100,000 tests for up to 80,000 citizens every day, and that the results could be notified to the subjects within 48 hours.
However, during the Lunar New Year holiday, many migrant workers have to wait in line outdoors for sampling, and some citizens waited more than a week after submitting the sample collection package before receiving the test results. It can be seen that the testing procedures have been overloaded recently, and the HA has also recently. It was announced that an outsourced laboratory failed to meet the 48-hour test result requirement.
Citizens cannot get test results quickly, which naturally hinders the authorities from controlling the spread of the epidemic.
The Center for Health Protection stated that the super spreader has the opportunity to bring the virus into the public places of the mall, and because the incubation period of the virus is more than five days, when the test result takes more than a week, the infected person may have re-infected before the test result is found. Others, thus inter-generational transmission occurs.
Although the Hospital Authority said that several private laboratories have been contacted to gradually join in providing services and inspections starting this week, it did not mention how much the daily inspections are expected to increase.
On the one hand, the bureau must give more information on the expected increase so that the outside world can assess whether it is sufficient, and on the other hand, it must also strengthen the supervision of contractors to complete their contract requirements.
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