The Hong Kong Athletics Federation has applied to the government a few days ago to resume the Standard Chartered Marathon in November this year, and today another sports event has also made a breakthrough. The Victoria Harbour Swimming will be held next month, and the number of people will remain the same as last year's 1,500 people.
The holding of large-scale sports events is a major signal that society is returning to normal. However, if each application must be applied separately and the epidemic prevention regulations must be reviewed for each case, it will undoubtedly bring obstacles to the organization of the event.
Tian Beichen, a member of the Legislative Council of the Real Policy Roundtable, suggested that the government should set uniform conditions and mechanisms for large-scale outdoor activities, so that all outdoor activities can be held under the same epidemic prevention regulations.
Tian Beichen suggested that the epidemic prevention and quarantine requirements for large-scale outdoor activities should be standardized.
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Strictly stipulate that contestants must play all 3 stitches
Tian Beichen believes that in order to successfully hold large-scale outdoor activities, the government first needs to exempt the 4-person gathering limit order.
Regarding the risk of crowd gathering, he made two major suggestions. They are strictly stipulating that all contestants must take all three shots of the vaccine, and any exempted people, including those who get a blue code after two doses, are also not eligible.
In addition, a negative test certificate is also required.
Such large-scale events will involve local and non-local people. Tian Beichen advocates that the testing plan should be flexible.
He suggested that the government provide two options for participation plus two to choose one.
Tian Beichen believes that the government should allow large-scale event participants to choose nucleic acid testing or rapid testing, and there must be corresponding support for both.
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Nucleic acid testers within 48 hours will be given a yellow code before the game
The first is to provide nucleic acid testing within 48 hours. In order to prevent loopholes in entering and leaving high-risk places after testing, the "safe travel" code must be changed from blue code to yellow code after receiving nucleic acid testing to restrict dining out and other Activities that can remove masks will be transferred back to the blue code after the event is completed.
Completed under the supervision of the staff of the rapid test center
The second is to refer to the practice of Singapore, set up a rapid test center at a designated location 6 hours before the competition, with multiple intervals, under the supervision of the staff to complete the rapid test and obtain a negative certificate, the holder can go to participate in the competition.
Tian Beichen believes that compared with last year, the third injection rate in Hong Kong has been greatly improved, and if the marathon cannot even be held, some people may question why all three injections are required.
New World Victoria Harbour Swimming will be held on 10.23 with a quota of 1,500 swimmers who must take all the needles and hold the "Blue Code" Victoria Harbour Swimming. A total of 1,500 participants will be held on October 23. He Shibei will serve as the ambassador. The night sky of Victoria Harbour is not bright for four years
