ZeroCOVID19strategybestforHKscurrentsituationCarrieLam
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于2022年04月23日发表
From: Shenzhen Daily
Updated: 2022-02-10 09:02
Carrie LAM, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), said Tuesday that “zero COVID-19” is the best strategy for Hong Kong’s current anti-epidemic situation.
Lam said the dynamic “zero infection” approach is in the public’s interests as it protects public health and safety, stressing that Hong Kong should adhere to the anti-epidemic strategy to buy time for enhancing the vaccination rate, in order to avoid unbearable pressure on Hong Kong’s hospitals.
Lam also unveiled a series of stringent anti-epidemic measures due to the recent surge of COVID-19 cases.
Religious venues and hair salons will be closed from today, and the current social distancing measures will be extended until Feb. 24.
The vaccine pass scheme will be effective from Feb. 24, where unvaccinated people will be banned from entering a list of venues specified in the Prevention and Control of Disease (Requirements and Directions) (Business and Premises) Regulation. This list will be expanded to include shopping malls, wet markets and other markets, supermarkets, department stores, religious venues and hair salons.
The HKSAR Government will also ban cross-family gatherings in private premises involving more than two households.
Close and secondary contacts of COVID-19 patients are subjected to home quarantine starting from Tuesday.
Since the start of a mass inoculation program in February last year, about 5.44 million people, or 80.8 percent of the eligible population in Hong Kong, have taken at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccines, while over 4.9 million, or 72.8 percent of the eligible population, have taken two doses.
Meanwhile, more than 1.09 million people in Hong Kong have taken their third booster shots.
The mainland Tuesday recorded 73 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said yesterday.
Of the new local infections, 72 were reported in Guangxi and one in Liaoning, the commission said in its daily report.
