Kong Fanyi advocates that the test result be shortened to 4 hours and the daily nucleic acid passenger can be exempted from quarantine

The number of confirmed cases has rebounded sharply. The Director of the Medical and Health Bureau, Lu Chongmao, proposed yesterday (8th) that using more frequent nucleic acid tests and speeding up the reporting is an important means of fighting the epidemic.

Kong Fanyi, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases and clinical professor of the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong University, said in a radio program today (9th) that he agrees with the statement and suggested that the authorities increase the number of testing centers and shorten the time for testing results to 4 hours, so as to isolate as soon as possible Diagnosed.

He continued that if the testing contractor can shorten the testing time and cooperate with the daily nucleic acid testing of arrivals, the authorities can exempt passengers from quarantine arrangements.

Kong Fanyi said on a commercial TV program this morning that the number of confirmed patients has increased, and the number of hospital admissions has doubled from early June to about 800. However, severe cases and deaths are still stable, and the medical system is not under too much pressure. "Hybrid immunity" (hybrid immunity) is related, that is, after two or three injections, the immunity will be the highest. In addition, in the fifth wave of the epidemic, most people are infected with the BA.2 virus strain. 4 and BA.5 have better protection.

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He said that he agrees with Lu Chongmao that accurate nucleic acid testing can diagnose, isolate and treat people diagnosed early, especially those at high risk. The time from detection to diagnosis is so short, you have less chance to contact other people.”

Kong Fanyi is a clinical professor at the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong.

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Regarding the government's requirement from yesterday to require passengers to do multiple acid tests on the third day of arrival in Hong Kong, Kong Fanyi believes that this move makes the quarantine arrangement more secure, and proposes to add one more nucleic acid test on the seventh day, that is, the day of the "epidemic release". The time between the two tests is short, or after you finish, you can isolate if you know that you are positive very quickly. Which subviral strain the patient is infected with.

Suspending the circuit breaker mechanism, he believes that it will have little impact on the epidemic, because imported cases only account for about one-tenth of the overall epidemic, and the imported variant virus is also prevalent in Hong Kong. He believes that testing and quarantine arrangements should be focused on. Frequent and faster results, the "3+4" quarantine arrangement can be considered, that is, three days of hotel quarantine and four days of home quarantine. If the epidemic situation is still stable after the implementation of the relevant arrangements, the quarantine arrangement can be considered to be cancelled, but the main premise is that Nucleic acid testing is done daily and the results are reported within 4 to 8 hours.

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Variant viruses Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 are showing signs of spreading. He believes that BA.5 has gradually become a mainstream virus in South Africa, Europe and the United States recently, so he believes that this trend will also appear in Hong Kong.

He continued to point out that BA.5 and the currently popular BA.2 have only three nucleic acid mutations, so the immune escape from the virus will be enhanced, the transmissibility will also be enhanced, and the recovered patients may be re-infected, but the overall destructive power is similar to that of BA. 2 It is no different, that is, the symptoms will be relatively mild, but it is emphasized that the public should not take it lightly, and the "gu injection" is once again predicted, and the second-generation vaccine is expected to be available by the end of the year, calling on the public, especially the elderly, to get three or four shots of the vaccine. .

He also revealed that after the second-generation vaccine is available on the market, it will discuss with the expert committee and recommend that the government postpone the QR code of recovered patients for three months so that they can receive the second-generation vaccine.

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