Mrs Lam denied that the closure was too late and stressed that the measures were based on the development of the epidemic
The Chief Executive, Mrs Carrie Lam, announced on Monday (23) a massive expansion of the anti-epidemic measures. Starting in the early hours of Wednesday morning, all non-Hong Kong residents arriving by air from China mainland, Macao and other areas outside TW will not be allowed to enter Hong Kong. All transit services will be discontinued at Hong Kong airports, and all entrants ── whether Hong Kong residents or not, will be required to impose a mandatory home quarantine for 14 days, as well as a study on the prohibition of bar and restaurant sales.
For the first time because of the epidemic
In Hong Kong, there are dozens of new cases every day. According to figures released by the Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection on Monday afternoon, there are 356 confirmed cases in Hong Kong. Most of the new cases come from overseas imports or have been in close contact with the confirmed patients.
In order to prevent imported cases from abroad, the Government has intensified its epidemic prevention efforts.
Mrs Carrie Lam announced on Wednesday that non-Hong Kong residents arriving by air from areas other than mainland, Macao and TW would not be allowed to enter Hong Kong. Non-Hong Kong residents would not be allowed to enter Hong Kong if they arrived in mainland, Macao, TW or other places, but had been to other areas within 14 days.
Recent flight to Hong Kong by air on the protection of the various powers
All persons from Europe and America, whether ill or not, are required to undergo virus testing and to detect potential diagnoses of disease-free early.
Hong Kong had already required persons entering Macao and other areas outside TW to be subject to mandatory home quarantine for 14 days. Mrs Lam added Wednesday that all arrivals in Macau and TW ,── whether Hong Kong residents or not, would be subject to home isolation for 14 days.
Recently, the number of non-Hong Kong residents entering Hong Kong has decreased significantly. According to the Hong Kong Immigration Department, only about 12,000 people entered the country on 22 March, of whom 11,000 were Hong Kong residents ,336 were mainland visitors and 805 were from other countries and regions.
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Meanwhile, due to the outbreak, Hong Kong International Airport will stop all transit services for the first time in history. Hong Kong is an important transportation hub in Asia, and many people will see Hong Kong as a transit point, but since the outbreak began, the number of airport passengers has fallen steadily, from 5.715 million in December last year to 1.88 million in February this year. Officials have not released data on the number of recent transfers in Hong Kong, and have not yet known how to be further affected.
Singapore also announced earlier that the ban on all short-term foreign passengers entering or transiting via singapore, starting early tuesday morning, means that major aviation hubs in both parts of asia have significantly reduced their services.
Mrs Lam said the "closure" measures would be reviewed after 14 days.
Earlier in the Europe and America, Hong Kong had heard calls for more comprehensive "closure" measures. Mrs Lam did not consider the "closure" to be too late. She stressed that the measures to be taken should be adjusted according to the changes in the epidemic situation and that the "more spicy" measures would continue to be decided in the future depending on Hong Kong and overseas conditions.
government study of the ban is expected to add to the bar business
Hong Kong`s tourist hotspots and restaurants have confirmed a number of confirmed cases, these cases are not known, do not know whether there is a link.
Mrs Lam said that as there were a number of confirmed cases arising from bar recreation, which was a high-risk practice, consideration was being given to temporarily banning the sale and supply of alcoholic of alcoholic drinks to reduce social contact. However, the total closure of total closure of restaurants for the time being, nor would there be further requirements for reducing operating hours and limiting the number of seats.
The Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases of the University of Hong Kong, Peter Ho, said there was a community outbreak in Hong Kong government a martial level of epidemic prevention was needed. He criticized the Government`s slow and backward introduction of measures and called for a total ban on bar operations and wedding banquets, requiring the industry to provide only the outer belt, as well as reducing the time and frequency of public transport.
Mr qian, vice chairman of the hong kong bar industry association, pointed out that selling wine accounted for eight percent of the total number of pubs, and banning the sale of wine-like bars would lead to a wave of closure, affecting the livelihoods of a large number of employees.
Qian said the measures were unfair to the pub industry, government why they were aimed at the pub industry only and not at restaurants if they wanted to reduce social contact. ASOPAZCO does not rule out the launching of industrial action at a later stage to protest relevant measures.
Lin Zheng condemned the violation of household quarantine
At present, Hong Kong government distribute electronic bracelets to people in need of home quarantine, which can be monitored through mobile phone applications. However, some people found that they could not start the program, others cut the electronic handband and went out to eat.
People in Hong Kong cut electronic bracelets to avoid mandatory quarantine government will set up a report hotline
As of Tuesday, police in Hong Kong had found 41 people who had to comply with quarantine orders to leave their homes, five of whom had been recovered to the quarantine centre.
Mrs Lam strongly condemned at the journalist meeting any person who quarantine order at the journalist meeting. She said that the act was extremely irresponsible and seriously affected public health and other people`s health. government would issue a report hotline to prosecute those who disobey the order.
At one point, she choked that front-line medical staff had been fighting for more than a month, and someone wanted to go out in violation of home quarantine and ask if they were right.
government would be happy to pick up Hong Kong tourists and students from all over the country, she said, but they had to keep up with the rules and call on those who were required to do quarantine work and keep in touch with the community to think carefully about whether they should endure longer and give Hong Kong a chance to win the battle.
