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Three cases of quarantine-free pilots were recorded in a week after entering the community. Xu Shuchang was diagnosed with compulsory quarantine for seven days

2021-11-14T11:32:53.776Z


Within a week in Hong Kong, three Cathay Pacific cargo aircraft personnel who were exempted from quarantine were diagnosed after entering the community. All three returned to Hong Kong in Frankfurt, Germany, with variant viruses. Cathay Pacific said it would replace local hotels for the crew.


Within a week in Hong Kong, three Cathay Pacific cargo aircraft personnel who were exempted from quarantine were diagnosed after entering the community. All three returned to Hong Kong in Frankfurt, Germany, with variant viruses.

Cathay Pacific said it would replace local hotels for the crew.

Xu Shuchang, a government expert consultant, said that "changing hotels will not help." Because the variant virus has flooded Germany and even all of Europe, the recently confirmed crew members tested positive within seven days after returning to Hong Kong. Therefore, it is recommended that the crew be forced to quarantine for at least seven days. .


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The three Cathay Pacific crew members who were exempted from quarantine were all diagnosed after arriving in Hong Kong from Frankfurt, Germany, and tested for a variant virus.

They tested positive within three to five days after arriving in Hong Kong.

Cathay Pacific said it would immediately arrange for all crew members in Frankfurt to change hotels and suspend their stay in the area as soon as possible.

However, Xu Shuchang, chair professor of the Department of Respiratory System at CUHK, told "Hong Kong 01" that changing hotels will not help reduce crew infections, because the variant virus has spread throughout Germany and many European countries. On the contrary, the crew members who have been diagnosed after returning to Hong Kong recently It was discovered within seven days, and it was suggested that after returning to Hong Kong, they must be quarantined for seven days before they can leave the community.

Liang Zichao: Should be quarantined for 14 days

Respiratory system specialist Liang Zichao believes that the crew must be quarantined for at least 14 days, expand the epidemic prevention network, agree that they also need to see their families, and recommend that they be allowed a one-month holiday after working for a period of time.

As to whether the re-requiring of crew quarantine will result in insufficient manpower to help freight as usual, he believes that the number of freighter flights has not returned to the peak level before the epidemic. He believes that Cathay Pacific will make changes and increase the cargo capacity each time to solve the problem.

Liang Zichao said that the exemption of quarantine cases was diagnosed, "One and a half times a good luck can be passed safely, but there are many people going back and forth, and the crew will always have trouble when they leave the community." Even if the authorities are about to require the crew to be tested daily, he They all think that it cannot replace quarantine. "The previous pilot had a CT value of more than 30 and the virus load was so low, but after he was admitted to the hospital, the sample dropped to a few 10, and the virus load increased by tens of thousands of times. There has been enough time to spread out of the community. In fact, there is a period of time for testing. It takes one and a half days from the sampling to the actual diagnosis. It is not enough to prevent the spread. Don’t be foolproof with daily testing."

New crown pneumonia | 48 people in Kaifan Xuan Tai Kok Tsui have not been tested and a total of 240,000 residents have been fined: please do not make the queue resistant to new crown pneumonia.

Latest | 1 imported case involving a 53-year-old Cathay Pacific pilot initially diagnosed with fewer than 10 cases of new coronary pneumonia | Cathay Pacific 3 pilot returned to Hong Kong to confirm the diagnosis and change to a local hotel, not staying in Frankfurt

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Source: hk1

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