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Hong Kong University research says banning dine-in in evening markets will not help curb the epidemic

2022-03-10T11:11:17.848Z


The latest report from the School of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong said that the government's measures to ban dine-in in the evening market had no significant impact on the reproduction rate of the virus. Research suggests that if restaurants reopen for dinner, they can maintain a limit on the number of people to avoid


The latest report from the School of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong said that the government's measures to ban dine-in in the evening market had no significant impact on the reproduction rate of the virus.

The study pointed out that if restaurants reopened the evening market, the number of people could be limited at the same time to avoid crowd gathering, which was described as a reasonable epidemic prevention measure.


Zhang Yuren, a member of the catering industry of the Legislative Council, expressed the hope that the government will seriously consider the opinions of experts and propose to relax the dine-in in the evening market until 10 pm.


Zhang Yuren hopes that the government will seriously consider the experts' suggestions and relax the dine-in period in the evening market until 10 pm.

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Comparison of the effects of multiple measures on the reproduction rate of the third and fourth waves of the virus

The Hong Kong University team published a research report in the US CDC academic journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, studying the data of the third and fourth waves of the epidemic in Hong Kong, calculating the ban on dine-in after 6 pm and other measures against the new crown virus. effect on reproduction rate.

The results found that banning dine-in in the evening market had no significant effect on reducing the virus reproduction rate.

The study also included various social distancing restrictions, such as limiting the number of people per table and shortening operating hours.

According to the research, the virus reproduction rate of the third wave of the outbreak on June 27, 2020 was 4.5, that is, each patient could infect 4.5 people. One week after the implementation of the above-mentioned social distancing measures, the virus reproduction rate dropped to below 1.

In the fourth wave of the epidemic on November 16, 2020, the virus reproduction rate was 3.1, and it also dropped to around 1 after the implementation of the other measures mentioned above.

▼Market conditions under the epidemic on March 8▼


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It is recommended to maintain the limit on the number of people if the evening market reopens

The Hong Kong University team believes that although the study cannot completely rule out the effect of banning dine-in in the evening market, it believes that it has no impact on the containment of the third and fourth waves of the epidemic.

The team pointed out that if the restaurant reopens the evening market, it can request to maintain the limit of the number of people to avoid crowd gathering, describing it as a reasonable epidemic prevention measure.

Zhang Yuren pointed out that the current ban on dine-in in the evening market and the reduction of restaurant business hours have little effect on epidemic prevention, because the restaurant occupancy rate is already very low.

He believes that the catering industry has been cooperating with the government's measures to prevent the epidemic in the past two years, and called on the government to seriously consider the opinions of experts and strike a balance between epidemic prevention and control and economic activities.

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Source: hk1

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