Starting tomorrow (December 9), the quarantine period will be shortened to 5 days for confirmed patients and close contacts who have received two doses of the new crown vaccine, and the rapid test requirement for arrivals in Hong Kong will also be reduced from 7 days to 5 days. Measures such as the wide mask order have disappeared.
Yuan Haiwen believes that the yellow code restrictions on arrivals in Hong Kong can be relaxed.
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Yuan Haiwen pointed out that the order to restrict gatherings and the vaccine pass did not help much
The Democratic Party believes that the government's anti-epidemic prevention and control measures are slow, and expressed disappointment, worrying that Hong Kong's economic recovery will not be expected.
Yuan Haiwen, the party's medical policy spokesman, said that Hong Kong is one of the very few areas that still require residents to wear masks outdoors, and scientific data shows that the rate of infection with the new crown in household registration is quite low. He believes that Hong Kong has sufficient conditions to relax the outdoor mask order.
Yuan Haiwen also pointed out that the restrictions on gatherings and vaccine passes are not seen to be of great help in epidemic control. If science is the basis, they should be relaxed as soon as possible.
He also suggested that the epidemic prevention measures for tourists, especially the yellow code policy, should also be relaxed at the same time, and it is believed that the risk of transmission in Hong Kong will not be significantly increased.
Yang Yongjie said that he travels with peace of mind, "I don't know why after scanning."
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Yang Yongjie: Traveling with peace of mind "I don't know why after scanning" and it affects business
Yang Yongjie, a member of the Legislative Council of the "A4 Alliance", welcomed the arrangement of reducing the quarantine period to 5 days, but also noticed that the "New 10" epidemic prevention measures in the Mainland stipulate that, except for special places such as nursing homes, medical institutions, and primary and secondary schools, other places will no longer be quarantined. Check the nucleic acid test certificate and health code.
Yang Yongjie said that Hong Kong should also consider gradually relaxing the application scope of "Safe Travel", pointing out that there is currently no tracking function for Safe Travel, and the notification function of infection risk has also been suspended. , For example, street vendors reported that their business has plummeted by 50%.
He suggested that except for high-risk places such as nursing homes, medical institutions, schools, restaurants and bars, other places should be exempted from the QR code scanning arrangement.
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