At present, Hong Kong and the Mainland rely on foreign defense imports to prevent the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in the community. However, in the face of the easily spread Omicron variant virus, even the Mainland has repeatedly reported urban fallout cases, and it is difficult for Hong Kong to completely avoid it.
Government expert consultant Yuan Guoyong and his colleagues advocated that the anti-epidemic war should be the main focus. The focus is to increase the vaccination rate and implement vaccine passports to cope with the risk of virus outbreaks and promote customs clearance. It is worthy of the government and the public to ponder.
In order to return to normal life in the future, society must implement strict epidemic prevention measures as soon as possible.
Yuan Guoyong and two medical scholars Kong Fanyi and Long Zhenbang wrote an article on Tuesday (28th). After referring to medical research and examples from other places, three main points were put forward.
The first is that long-term defense must be lost. The society cannot be cleared forever, and the long-term economy will be harmed by closing customs to achieve clearing.
Second, opening to the outside world will inevitably lead to a rapid increase in the number of new crown patients. Therefore, citizens must be vaccinated widely to help reduce deaths and severe cases.
The current goal of zeroing is to strive for space to promote vaccination, especially for the elderly and children with low vaccination rates.
The Hospital Authority has to reserve resources to accept patients and pass the vaccine wave afterwards.
The third is to accelerate vaccination, the government has the responsibility to implement vaccine passports taking into account group differences.
The fourth is to set a target and time for the vaccination rate. Scholars believe that by grasping the timing switch when the summer epidemic is slightly slower, it will reach 99% immunization and complete the three-dose vaccination in July next year.
Yuan Guoyong, Chair Professor of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong School of Medicine, wrote an article after December 28, stating that Hong Kong’s epidemic prevention must be based on anti-targets. Clearing is only defensive, and pushing up the vaccination rate is offensive. Pushing a vaccine passport is a more suitable method.
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Anti-epidemic timetable and road map
The biggest role of the article is to remind Hong Kong citizens that for the sake of themselves, their relatives and public health, individuals need to lay down their choices and compulsorily abide by the government’s anti-epidemic measures. At the same time, they remind the Hong Kong government that society will eventually coexist with the new crown virus, and that customs clearance targets are not only in the Mainland but also worldwide.
The government has set a timetable and road map for the fight against the epidemic, which can encourage citizens to see the way forward and increase their desire to comply with anti-epidemic measures.
To attack the virus, the government and the people must cooperate.
Hong Kong currently has a lot of social and entry-exit quarantine restrictions. To be counted as new, it is the third shot and the widespread introduction of vaccine passports.
For citizens who have received two injections, the third injection is not difficult to promote.
In contrast, vaccine passports are trickier.
At the policy level, only citizens who have completed the vaccination are allowed to enter and leave designated places. This not only protects the safety of those who cannot be vaccinated, but also changes their behavior by increasing the trouble of those who voluntarily do not get vaccinated.
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Determined to promote vaccine passports to soothe the worries of the elderly
However, after ten months of vaccination, the business lottery, the new regulations for government, university and public institution employees, the relaxation of restaurant dining regulations, and the overwhelming media promotion, the vaccination rate for the elderly over 70 is still On the low side, only more than 30%, indicating that they are still quite worried about the vaccine, but the vaccine passport has the most obvious impact on them.
The government should continue to tell them the benefits of vaccines, and more importantly, deal with the follow-up work of known vaccine medical accidents, and carefully account for rehabilitation and compensation matters, so that they feel that the government cares about abnormal cases and that problems will not be destroyed. Drop life.
However, Chief Executive Carrie Lam only responded on the same day to "consider implementing vaccine passports in due course", stating that the government's attitude is still not firm and is also delaying the restoration process.
On the same day that Yuan Guoyong's article was published, the Center for Health Protection announced that a few days ago, the infected crew members were wandering around after arriving in Hong Kong.
Center Director Xu Lejian said that the risk of Omicron's outbreak in the local community is very high, and any spark can cause the fifth wave of epidemics.
As it will become more difficult to stop the epidemic, the government must maintain the current epidemic prevention restrictions and tighten them as soon as possible in the event of an epidemic.
At the same time, the government must step up efforts to promote vaccinations for citizens, to control the risk of death and severe illness in the short-term when the epidemic breaks out, and to prepare for the relaxation of various epidemic prevention restrictions and customs clearance in the long-term.
Strictly prevent the epidemic and handle customs clearance. The two places coordinate the implementation of "One Country, Two Systems". The government's "year pass" will be tested until government employees accept the "vaccine bubble", which can serve as a model for society.
