Lu Chongmao, the incoming director of the Medical and Health Bureau, said that after taking office, measures will be introduced to reduce the quarantine period for visitors to Hong Kong to 5 days or less, and at the same time to cooperate with home isolation and require passengers to take "point-to-point" travel.
He pointed out that under precise epidemic prevention, more return-to-normal measures will be introduced to facilitate people's lives and economic development.
Study to shorten the number of quarantine days for visitors to Hong Kong to 5 days or less
In an interview with Commercial Taiwan, Lu Chongmao said that currently only about 1% of tourists visiting Hong Kong have the new crown virus. If the patient can be identified early, the number of quarantine days can be shortened to 5 days or even shorter.
He said that visitors to Hong Kong need to cooperate with home isolation and take "point-to-point" travel, and the government must also increase the speed, quantity and accuracy of nucleic acid tests.
When Lu Chongmaoyue attended the forum before, he supported "dynamic clearing", describing that "coexistence with the virus will only take us to the Yellow Springs".
Regarding whether shortening the quarantine period means moving towards "coexistence with the virus", Lu Chongmao said today that he does not want to use the word "coexistence", emphasizing that the virus brings death risks to the elderly and chronic patients, and the fifth wave of the epidemic caused more than 9,000 deaths , do not want the situation to repeat itself.
Lu Chongmao pointed out that the number of quarantine days for tourists visiting Hong Kong has been reduced to 5 days or less.
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Li Jiachao also said that he will study home isolation or reduce the hotel quarantine period
He also pointed out that if the number of infections continues to increase, or hospital services may fall, it is necessary to continue to reduce the number of infections in Hong Kong under the general direction of "dynamic clearing".
As for customs clearance with the mainland, Lo Chongmao pointed out that different regions have different epidemic prevention standards. He believes that in order to understand the concerns of the mainland, it is also necessary to unify local and national nucleic acid testing standards before customs clearance can be implemented.
Chief Executive-designate Li Jiachao also said in a media interview that full quarantine-free customs clearance with the Mainland is still a priority. Even if it may not be so easy to achieve in the short term, some temporary measures can be studied to reduce the inconvenience of people coming to Hong Kong from other places, such as allowing home isolation, or shortening The number of quarantine days in designated hotels.
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