Several government officials attended the birthday party of Hong Weimin, a representative of the Hong Kong People's Congress, last Monday (3rd). Later, one of the attendees tested positive and was listed as a close contact. Xu Yingwei, director of the Home Affairs Bureau, had to go to Penny's Bay to receive treatment on the 21st. quarantine.
The chief executive, Carrie Lam, said earlier that it was frustrating that the gathering brought about the risk of spreading the disease, and he named Xu Yingwei as particularly disappointed, stressing that he would take appropriate actions for the poor performance of individual officials.
Tan Yaozong, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, said today (9th) that he agrees with the government to take the birthday party incident seriously, and believes that the people involved sincerely apologize and hope that they can learn from the incident and continue to do a good job in epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic work in their respective positions in the future.
He also pointed out that the strict implementation of foreign defense input is the key task, emphasizing that the crew is a big loophole, and the supervision mechanism should be improved, and we should unite to look forward, and strive for early clearance and clearance as soon as possible.
Escort for party members earlier
Tan Yaozong said the day before yesterday (7th) that although the Mochizukilou group broke out on the day of the incident, the social atmosphere was not serious, which may have made the participants relaxed.
As for whether there are officials who need to be held accountable, Tan Yaozong pointed out that the relevant officials have apologized, and the tracking and quarantine work must be done at present.
Regarding requests for Xu Yingwei to step down, Tan Yaozong, who was an advisor to the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong, escorted his party members at the time. He pointed out that there was no need for it at present, and the Chief Executive had already indicated that he would take action.
Hong Weimin apologizes to Xu Yingwei again: I should have declined the invitation to reflect on the pain and redouble my efforts in the future step down
