The price of nucleic acid detection in Hong Kong is five times that of Shenzhen. "
Hong Kong's outbreak of local community group infection this week, Hong Kong's Health Protection Centre infectious disease director Zhang Zhujun said this is the "third wave outbreak ."
Affected by the new crown epidemic, hong kong has been closed since february 8, may long. Cross-border families and other people will be separated from the two places, the transfer of foreign passengers back to the Chinese mainland in the door.
In May, the Hong Kong government announced that it was studying the mutual recognition of health codes among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, with a limited relaxation of the flow of people. Just two months later, when health codes were coming out, on July 7, Hong Kong added 14 new cases, of which 9 were local transmissions and 5 had travel history. On July 8, 24 new cases were confirmed, 19 cases were local infections, and 5 cases were of unknown origin.
Dr. Zhang Zhujun, Director of the Infectious Diseases Department of the Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection, described the situation as "Hong Kong's defunct ", saying that if Hong Kong does not control the epidemic well ," it may be possible that they will not recognize each other's health codes ".
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Local community outbreaks
On 7 July, the Hong Kong government confirmed 14 new cases of diagnosis, of which 9 were local cases and 5 were of unknown origin, covering many high-risk places such as schools, restaurants and live a retired life homes. Zhang Zhujun, director of the infectious diseases department of the Hong Kong Health Protection Centre, said that there were invisible patients in the community, there were hidden transmission chains, and there was a possibility of a major outbreak ." The community transmission chain is so strong that it can be described as the third wave, and it is worried about the community outbreak. "
Most of the cases confirmed on 8 July were related to restaurants and homes for the elderly, as well as to students and parents, as well as taxi drivers. As a result, Hong Kong schools have closed their classes on their own. Anti-epidemic experts have advised Hong Kong to tighten the current restrictions and return to its strictest status at the beginning of March.
Most of the cases confirmed on 8 July were related to restaurants and homes for the elderly, as well as to students and parents and groups of taxi drivers.
As of July 8, according to Hong Kong government data, a total of 1324 confirmed cases ,7 people death ,1167 discharged.
Hong Kong's current logic is to find loopholes and plug them again, but it has not solved the problem from the source, that is, to do a good job of virus prevention deployment after tracing the source.
As an important transportation hub in the world, Hong Kong has great import risks at airports, ports and gates. In early June, Hong Kong began a limited resumption of transfer services, i.e. foreign transfers via Hong Kong. The crew members and crew members are a large number of people exempted from the epidemic prevention measures in Hong Kong.
Under the Prevention and Control of and Control of Diseases Ordinance, crew members, passenger ships and cargo ship crews who are required to perform their duties between Hong Kong and a foreign region, in their names and who are required to perform government related operations, are exempted from compulsory quarantine.
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On 4 July, Hong Kong added several new import cases, including a pilot who returned from Kazakhstan. He had symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection and was tested in a private clinic.
The 11 crew members of a container ship were tested positive for Coronavirus in Ningbo. Nine of them boarded the ship in Hong Kong on 24 June, and were exempted from quarantine. They were not required to undergo a new type of coronal virus test. During their stay in Hong Kong, the crew stayed at the local Tsuen Wan Disheng Hotel arranged by the Shipping Company.
In an effort to close the gap in quarantine prevention exemption population, the Hong Kong Government announced that from July 8, it would strengthen the monitoring of quarantine exemption personnel, leaving deep saliva samples for all crew members arriving through the airport.
Data from the Hong Kong Security Bureau show that more than 200,000 exempted persons entered Hong Kong between February and May this year. But now exempt people entering Hong Kong via land crossings do not need to leave a deep saliva sample, which may still be a gap.
Hong Kong is now implementing a 14-day home separation policy for overseas arrivals. But recent confirmed cases show that patients before the hospital to cross the streets and other crowded places, resulting in the risk of transmission; and home isolation has unauthorized out of the situation.
In addition, Hong Kong has a large number of Filipino domestic workers. Hong Kong has a narrow living environment and some employers are unable to provide them with independent isolation. Employers are also concerned about the risk of infection, so they are reluctant to allow them to live in isolation. However, people arriving in Hong Kong have to be segregated under Hong Kong's current epidemic prevention policy, and the Hong Kong Government has to recruit them to be segregated in hotels at the employer's expense.
Daily average and large scale tests
The community outbreak in Hong Kong shows that there is a hidden communication chain in the community, and finding out the hidden communication chain in the community helps to fight the epidemic. And large-scale detection is one of the effective means.
from an epidemiological perspective, large-scale testing helps to identify who is infected virus 、 who is transmitted virus, who should be isolated and tracked. Earlier, large-scale tests in South Korea and Germany helped keep their new death rates relatively low in the midst of a surge overseas.
Wuhan and Beijing continued to test 10 million people. According to Chinese media reports, the cost of universal testing in Wuhan is about 1 billion yuan. Beijing's spending has not yet been announced.
Hong Kong has been conservative and hesitant about mass testing. Hong Kong's government replied to The British Broadcasting Corporation inquiry earlier, saying that in Hong Kong, which has a population of about 7.45 million, the current average daily testing capacity is 2000.
The average daily testing capacity in Hong Kong is only about 2000.
In May, Hong Kong's anti-epidemic experts proposed to raise the daily screening test in Hong Kong from 2000 to 7000. Yuan Guoyong, a professor of microbiology at the University of Hong Kong, said in May that the Department of Health in Hong Kong had enough staff to increase the number of people tested daily by making a schedule and doing it separately.
In July, Dr. Wong Ka-ching, Director of the Centre for Health Protection of the Hong Kong Department of Health, stressed that Hong Kong's testing volume was already quite high, saying ," It is not the case that there will be no outbreak of 7,000 tests or that there will be no outbreak without 7,000 tests. "
"It is impossible for 7 million people in Hong Kong to do it. If so, how often? "
High testing costs
Hong Kong has been studying health codes for mutual recognition with Guangdong and Macao in the past two months. Hong Kong government has reported that mutual recognition of health codes requires cross-border people to do nucleic acid tests first, and the results are converted into health codes. The effective time limit for one test is 7 days.
The price of accounting tests in Hong Kong varies from HK $1500 to HK $3200.
Guangdong, hong kong and hong kong mutual recognition of health code has not been released.
For those who frequently travel to and from China and Hong Kong, the monthly testing fee can be as high as HK $10,000, and Hong Kong people criticize it as a "rich man's exclusive" customs clearance test.
Compared with Macao, Macao residents are exempted from the first nucleic acid detection fee, students and teachers of cross-border residence are exempted from the nucleic acid detection fee once every 7 days, and the rest of the residents are exempted from the nucleic acid detection fee of 180 Australian dollars (1 to 1 exchange rate between Australian dollars and Hong Kong dollars).
This price is five times that of Shenzhen nucleic acid detection.
Mutual recognition of the health code is based on both sides of the epidemic controlled, but Hong Kong is currently dealing with the local third wave outbreak, health code launch time will no doubt be postponed, unsealing is still hopeless.
