Today (February 11), the Centre for Health Protection announced that there were 1,325 confirmed cases and 1,500 cases were initially confirmed. At present, about 2,000 people have been hospitalized for treatment, and more than 2,800 people have not been admitted to the hospital after the diagnosis.
How to monitor, manage, and treat these more than 2,800 confirmed cases? Are there enough wristbands to wear, have they been banned from walking around the streets, and have sufficient logistical support been provided?
I sincerely hope that the confirmed cases and close contacts will have the concept of self.
Contributing author: Leung Mei Fun (Member of the Legislative Council, initiator of the "Unite the People" platform)
Since the outbreak of the epidemic for more than two years, especially the double virus infection of Omicron and Delta, we have felt deeply powerless. The information transmitted by some media and some experts is that there is only "lying flat" waiting for the virus to mutate into an endemic disease. Doctrine prevailed.
Although enhanced vaccination can prevent severe illness, looking at Israel and Singapore, where the vaccination rate exceeds 90%, the infection rate of Omicron has always been high, and the elderly, children and sick patients have become a natural elimination group.
The most important thing is to save people successfully
The motherland takes life as the main premise. Hong Kong should make good use of "one country, two systems", give full play to the strength of the country's strong medical team, abandon the anti-epidemic obsession, not to be different for the sake of difference, but to be the same for the sake of success.
In a crisis, saving lives is the most important thing.
In the face of the outbreak, Hong Kong society must first abandon individualism, mobilize the whole people, take positive actions, and join hands with the mainland team to win the tough battle against the virus.
Covid-19 is an infectious disease sweeping the world. The whole society, organized and resourced governments, associations, and NGOs must work together to resist it. We must promote the awareness that everyone is the first responsible person to fight the epidemic, and fully cooperate with the fight against the epidemic. policy.
Only in this way can we ensure that the health and life of citizens are less affected by the political, economic and social environment.
This is the public interest of all people in the world, and it is also the consensus that Hong Kong's 7.5 million citizens should have.
Pope Francis of the Catholic Church wrote Let us Dream: The Path to a Better Future, in which he made a sharp critique of the world capitalist system and the individualistic ideology behind it, arguing that "the two colluded to create the current crisis.”
He went a step further by inviting people to "give up individualism and the incentives that individualism brings, because isolation will allow us to defeat ourselves." He also called on people all over the world to stand up and join hands in fundamental social reform, "Let us Building a better world from the crisis."
The Pope's rare criticism also reminds us that capitalism has its strengths, but we must also recognize its weaknesses in dealing with the crisis.
Hong Kong is already the hardest-hit area of the epidemic, and there are fires everywhere. We all know that the on-site sampling personnel are hard and tired, but Hong Kong's testing sites and testing personnel are not well-coordinated, and the waiting time for test results is a reality that we have to face. We have to admit that we The HA's arrangements were inappropriate.
Especially after the test results were confirmed, the follow-up arrangements were disordered, and more than 2,000 citizens were helpless and asked for help. We can only try to appease them and tell them not to go out, so as not to cause others to be infected, but this scenario also Makes people uncomfortable.
I hereby appeal to the government once again that confirmed cases must be admitted to hospital as soon as possible, and close contacts must be placed under quarantine management. If these matters cannot be properly managed and arranged, their communities will be the next big outbreak point.
Professor Leung Cheuk-wai, Dean of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, even estimated that if the city were not locked down, 1,000 people would die from the disease.
What other options are there for Hong Kong?
Following the successful experience of the mainland, asking for help is the only option.
Anti-epidemic cannot be fought alone
"Do Right Thing" can only be "Do thing Right".
I look forward to a breakthrough in the weekend two-region expert meeting led by Director Li Jiachao.
It is hoped that both places will achieve:
1. The mainland and Hong Kong jointly set up a unified command center to establish "One-stop Anti-epidemic";
2. Color alerts can be issued in the outbreak area, and broadcast continuously through public media, so that citizens can understand the epidemic situation and epidemic prevention arrangements in the area, avoid the hardest-hit areas, and let the citizens of the epidemic area proceed from the public interest, try to abandon their personal interests, and do not go out. So as not to become an invisible spreader and infect others;
3. Request the central government to increase the testing team of 2,000 people to assist all people in testing;
4. Establish more Fire Eye laboratories with enough laboratory personnel to quickly complete the detection and lock down all invisible transmission chains;
5. Increase enough medical personnel to complete the first vaccination for all citizens as soon as possible, and implement the epidemic pass as soon as possible instead of waiting until February 24;
6. As soon as possible, request the central government to arrange for the expansion of the Fangcang shelter hospital in the AWE with at least 10,000 beds, and those diagnosed with mild symptoms should be admitted.
Hong Kong's anti-epidemic was originally a public health issue, not a political one. When serious omissions occurred in Hong Kong's self-exploration of the anti-epidemic model, experts from "People's Daily", "Xinhua News Agency" and the National Health Commission have told Hong Kong the answer: only dynamic clearing Zero can pass the customs.
I know that the medical staff in Hong Kong have done their best to fight the epidemic and do not want to see an outbreak.
But time and the epidemic will not wait for anyone. Under this premise, the SAR government must adjust its past practices; what citizens need to see is the determination to protect their lives and health and to fight for customs clearance. ".
Now is the time to mobilize all the citizens of Hong Kong to fight the epidemic.
Under the challenge of the epidemic, it is also a time to unite people. They must walk with ordinary citizens and think about their plight, so that they can fully understand that the fight against the epidemic requires the selfless participation of the public.
We call on 7.5 million citizens to act together and cooperate to win this tough battle against the epidemic, so that children can go to school, Hong Kong's economy can recover as soon as possible, and Hong Kong society can return to normal.
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