Li Zhaobo, a scholar of the circuit breaker mechanism urged by the business community: the lethality of the mechanism is probably less than that of the Congo

The flight circuit breaker mechanism will be relaxed from May 1, and the no-fly conditions for the circuit breaker will be relaxed to 5 infected patients per flight or 5% of the passengers on the whole aircraft.

However, the business community still believes that the authorities can directly suspend the circuit breaker mechanism.

Li Zhaobo, an honorary teaching and researcher at the Asia-Pacific Business Institute of the CUHK Business School, pointed out that Hong Kong Airport currently has fewer passenger arrivals per day than the Congo Kinshasa Airport.

He described the flight circuit breaker mechanism as having great lethality to Hong Kong.

Legislative Councilor Tian Beichen also suggested that the authorities suspend the flight circuit breaker mechanism. Tian pointed out that the Omicron virus strain "used to dry and cooked noodles" is still prevalent in the world. He believes that relaxing the circuit breaker mechanism does not conflict with "dynamic clearing", but emphasizes that it is aimed at inbound passengers. , still have to set up a 7-day designated quarantine hotel isolation.

▼The epidemic lasted for more than two years, and the airport was full of passenger planes▼

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Li Zhaobo, an honorary teaching and research scholar at the Asia-Pacific Business Institute of the CUHK Business School, described Hong Kong's flight circuit breaker mechanism as absurd. To maintain Hong Kong's status as an international hub, it has reached a critical point, and it is imperative to resume international integration as soon as possible.

Li Zhaobo: The circuit breaker mechanism is too lethal to Hong Kong

Li Zhaobo compared the airport data of Hong Kong Airport and the airport of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa, and found that Hong Kong Airport has fewer than 20 passenger flights to Po every day, which is even less than Kinshasa Airport. There are already many flights from European destinations there: " Hong Kong has been reduced to such an extent that it is unstoppable!"

Li Zhaobo pointed out that the flight circuit breaker mechanism is extremely damaging to Hong Kong, and it has also led to a brain drain in the aviation industry. Even if the criteria for triggering circuit breakers have been relaxed recently, it is still unreasonable: "Passengers have a negative test to get on the plane first, and the positive one is caught. He went to the hospital, it’s hard to hear, all passengers (entry into Hong Kong) have to go to a quarantine hotel for 7 days, so if there is a case, the airline will be fined, what’s the matter with him?”

▼On April 1, the no-fly order of nine countries was revoked on the first day of the airport situation▼

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Tian Beichen: There is no conflict between the suspension circuit breaker mechanism and dynamic clearing

Tian Beichen also pointed out in the Hong Kong and Taiwan program that the circuit breaker mechanism is most effective when the virus is not understood, but the Omicron variant virus is already "cooked and cooked", and there is no new popular variant virus for the time being. In addition, there are oral drugs for the new crown in Hong Kong. And enough quarantine facilities, think that as long as the hotel quarantine is done well, "basically, the circuit breaker is meaningless", and the fifth wave of the outbreak has nothing to do with the circuit breaker mechanism.

Tian Xu said that the dynamic clearing requirement can control the increase of local cases. As long as the hotel quarantine work is done well, even if the flight circuit breaker mechanism is suspended, it does not conflict with the anti-epidemic direction of dynamic clearing. However, he emphasized that it is not a requirement to cancel the circuit breaker mechanism. Instead, it will be suspended and restarted if there is a new variant of the virus.

Epidemic｜Kong Fanyi proposes to cancel the flight circuit breaker mechanism if there is no new variant virus, no flight ban is meaningless Since at least one flight per day has been relaxed, the Department of Health pointed out that the proportion of imported confirmed cases has dropped by 2/3, and the risk is within the controllable range. Only 5% of the passengers on the plane are confirmed to have to stop flying and non-Hong Kong residents can enter