Chapter 1196 Visit to Hong Kong

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On March 12, for the first time, a global warning was issued describing the pneumonia epidemic in Vietnam and Hong Kong.

On March 15, a warning was issued to the world for the second time, proposing the concept of ratio and adding the definitions of suspected cases and possible cases. Publish emergency travel guidance related to stickers. It calls on the world to be more vigilant against COVID-19, reminds medical staff and travelers to pay attention to COVID-19 symptoms, and recommends reporting cases immediately. The United States has issued health warnings to doctors about concavity.

On March 17, o established a virtual research network to share public health information by phone and the Internet, which includes: There are several laboratories conducting epidemiological research in various regions of the country, and the country's flying clinical experts are coordinating global collaborative research to find comparable pathogens, and Hong Kong, China, has joined in.

On March 24, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced to the media that a never-before-seen member of the coronavirus family was the most likely cause of the disease. The center has made no experimental progress on paramyxoviruses.

On the same day, Singapore's Health Minister ordered hundreds of people who had been exposed to Jibi to quarantine at home for ten days.

On March 25, the Director of Health of Ontario, Canada declared COVID-19 a notifiable, communicable and highly virulent disease. This provision gives health officials the power to track infected people and order them to stop activities that may spread the disease.

At this time, among the people who had direct contact with a group of people waiting in the elevator of Hong Kong Jinghua International Hotel. More than 20 people have died, and 14 countries have reported cases of gunfire.

On March 26, the Canadian province of Ontario declared a public health emergency and ordered thousands of people to quarantine at home.

Some countries have taken maximum measures, including quarantine, to stop further spread of the virus.

...Fei convened an electronic conference attended by 80 clinical experts from 13 countries to conduct the first global "anti-prevention ward rounds"

China has updated the number of preventable cases! It reported that the number of sick people born in seven cities in Guangdong Province from November 16 last year to February 28 this year was 792, of whom 21 died.

The third global warning was issued on March 27, requiring airlines to screen passengers on flights from Toronto, Hong Kong, Singapore, Hanoi, Taiwan and Guangdong Province in China.

On the same day, Singapore closed schools and an engineering company in Taiwan closed after five employees showed symptoms of COVID-19, prompting Taipei to issue a medical warning.

March 28,

The Chinese government has officially joined the WHO's global cooperation network, bringing the number of network members to 13 research laboratories in ten countries. On the same day, the Department of Microbiology of the University of Hong Kong announced that it had isolated coronavirus from tissue specimens of comparison patients. It is inferred that it may be the causative agent.

It was at this point that the first doctor who suffered from bleeding died without treatment.

On March 31, the Hong Kong Department of Health issued unprecedented quarantine regulations to prevent the further spread of the epidemic. The regulations require residents of Amoy Garden Block to stay at home until midnight on April 9. Amoy Garden is a residential area with nearly 15,000 residents. A total of more than 200 residents in this residential area were hospitalized due to the payment.

The base of more than ten residential buildings in Amoy Gardens is the three-story Amoy shopping mall.

At noon, the shopping mall is bustling with people inside and outside. Very lively. Mothers are playing with their children in the children's playground. Female middle school students after school are slowly browsing comic shops and video stores. Several young couples are sitting in the fairy forest, drinking drinks and talking affectionately. Japanese-style fast The restaurant Yoshinoya was packed with office workers eating beef set meals.

The atrium on the ground floor is even more crowded. In order to attract residents to spend, various promotional activities are often held in the mall. Dozens of people seeking help line up in a long queue in the middle of the mall. Waiting to receive prizes and

Vouchers.

At this time, everything seemed so peaceful, and there was no sign of a murderous atmosphere. There were only disinfection stations set up at various intersections in the mall. To remind you to pay attention to personal hygiene, walk over and touch it gently, and the alcohol-based disinfectant will be dropped on your palm.

The Santa Ana Bakery on the street has a prominent sign outside the store announcing the strict preventive measures it has taken so that citizens can buy with confidence. Many fashion stores and cosmetics stores offer discounts to attract customers. There are 30% off, and some are even as low as 50% off.

Most Hong Kong people skip dinner at noon and prefer to drink tea. They walked into the Red Star Seafood Restaurant in the community. The receptionist warmly greeted the guests to sit down.

The lady introduced to everyone that the business is now deeply hit by blood fatigue, the worst time. There are not as many customers as there are waiters. In order to attract customers, this restaurant has introduced price discounts for lunch and dinner.

"The second phase of Amoy Gardens was built in 1981. The last phase was launched in 1987. The housing area is large and the building is more than 30 stories high, with a total of eight units on each floor. The entire community has a total of Nineteen residential buildings are lined up from top to bottom, and tens of thousands of citizens live here day and night. Among them, the one that has been hardest hit by the epidemic is the Financial Secretary of the SAR Government who accompanied Fan Heng and others on their inspection of Amoy Gardens. "On March 31, the Hong Kong government issued a quarantine order, requiring all residents in the city to stay at home for quarantine. The next night, the Hong Kong government took further measures. All residents in the city were moved to an isolation center away from the bustling urban area and quarantined. Observed for ten days. That night, all Hong Kong citizens inevitably felt uneasy. Although faced with extraordinary measures in extraordinary times, the residents were still calm. "

Fan Heng nodded, feeling uneasy in his heart.

In the ten days since the two sessions were successfully concluded, the situation of epidemic prevention and control at home and abroad can be said to have taken a turn for the worse. Especially in Hong Kong, there has been a huge explosion. The number of infected people and the high proportion of deaths have already made the situation worse. Everyone felt panic. This time Fan Heng inspected the SAR government's epidemic prevention work on behalf of the central government. This was actually an act to calm people's hearts.

At this time, the Hong Kong media was also in a mess. After all, the sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic put everyone in danger. However, Fan Heng suddenly led a delegation to visit the SAR and inspect the epidemic prevention situation, and went deep into the Amoy Gardens, which was the most severely affected area. After the news came out, people were immediately reassured and everyone felt hopeful. It is not often that national leaders of this level come to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to inspect the work, especially at such a critical moment. Read the latest Children's Day with such weight. The novel "Qi Um Xin" (Xi Jian Shu Tan), Xiao Yi and Wu came to the scene in person, regardless of safety, which is enough to show that the central government has wrongly supported Qian Tehanzheng just now.

Therefore, it is not only the SAR government and ordinary people who are encouraged, but also various enterprises and media have responded positively, saying that everyone has strengthened their confidence that Hong Kong will overcome the difficulties after facing up to the problem and taking strict measures. .

Regarding the latest situation, we should be relatively optimistic.

First, Hong Kong has existing laws for enforcement. Helps curb coronavirus pneumonia. This time Hong Kong used the "Epidemic Prevention and Quarantine Ordinance" left by the United Kingdom. It has not been used for more than a hundred years, but it is used this time. The regulations stipulate that not only patients must be isolated, but also anyone who has been in contact with patients must report to the relevant authorities regularly. Violators will be fined 5,000 yuan or imprisoned for six months.

It is said that there is no such regulation in the United States. Therefore, Americans are worried about taking more stringent measures once the epidemic spreads. What legal basis is there? Because the United States wants to quarantine patients, which involves human rights issues, enforcement cannot be without legal basis.

Second, the quality of Hong Kong officials and ordinary people is generally good, and the government's reasonable decisions will be implemented smoothly.

Third, Hong Kong's medical system is basically provided by the government. The conditions of government hospitals are quite good, and the professional standards of medical staff and medical equipment are good.

Fourth, Hong Kong has a relatively developed civil society, which will form private forces for disaster relief.

This time when fatigue is rampant, the SAR government has failed to respond. All walks of life in Hong Kong have proposed self-help, and the people themselves have initiated initiatives to improve public health and personal hygiene. I have done a lot of things such as sharing knowledge about prevention ratios.

In terms of economic impact, looking at it now, the three percent growth rate predicted at the beginning of the year is difficult to achieve.

Although some people believe that because the economy is too poor, the subsidy is not handled well, and the distribution gap is large and unfair, there is a threat of unrest in Hong Kong. But at this time, Fan Wubing, who was accompanying Fan Heng on a low-key visit to the SAR government, believed that although Hong Kong has many problems, it is unlikely to cause unrest because of its law-abiding tradition and relatively developed civil society.

Of course, the biggest problem is probably the loss of government prestige.

Although he does not think that the SAR government's handling of Canada is poor, public opinion in Hong Kong is very dissatisfied with the SAR government, and the mainland's prestige and image in the hearts of Hong Kong people have also suffered huge losses.

In the past few years, public opinion polls have shown that the central government is more popular than the SAR government, especially when dealing with the financial turmoil in Southeast Asia. The central government's decisive action has given Hong Kong people a lot of confidence in the central government. However, this time's ineffective handling of the storm has affected the central government's prestige.

Although opinion polls show that the central government is still more popular than the SAR government, the overall image of the mainland has deteriorated. Many Hong Kong people. Young people in particular cannot understand why China, which has joined the World Trade Organization and successfully bid for the Olympic Games, is still so unopen and opaque?

The source patient of the Amoy Gardens outbreak is a 33-year-old man who lives in Shenli and often visits his brother in Amoy Gardens.

The patient suffered from chronic renal failure and had been receiving treatment at the Prince of Wales Hospital. On March 14, he developed symptoms of severe acute respiratory syndrome. Within a week after that, he went to a hospital in Amoy Gardens Block. His brother owned a unit and used the toilet there because of diarrhea.

After this, his brother, sister-in-law and two nurses who cared for him at Prince of Wales Hospital were confirmed to be infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome.

During the subsequent government investigation, it was discovered that each building in Amoy Gardens has eight vertical sewage pipes to collect sewage from units with the same number on all floors. This sewage pipe connects the water closet, wash basin, bathtub and bathroom floor outlet. Each of the above-mentioned sanitary devices is equipped with a water collector to prevent sewage odors and insects from entering the toilet.

According to interviews conducted by government staff with residents of Amoy Gardens, they learned that complaints about odor in toilets are very common, and the water collectors connected to some units may not be functioning as they should. Since water closets, wash basins, and bathtubs are commonly used, the water collectors connected to them should store water most of the time. And it should be able to perform the air isolation function.

Therefore, official experts speculate that this airflow may disperse virus-containing droplets stored in sewage pipes into the bathroom, and the bathroom exhaust fan may also discharge these droplets into the patio that separates adjacent units. Eventually the virus-laden drops entered other units through windows.

"Recent studies have shown that the feces of many severe acute respiratory syndrome patients contain coronavirus, and the survival time of this virus in the feces is longer than that attached to the surface of objects. The severe acute respiratory syndrome that broke out in Amoy Gardens In the systemic syndrome incident, as many as two-thirds of the patients had diarrhea, causing a large amount of viruses to be discharged into the sewers." A Hong Kong medical expert explained to Fan Heng, "The source patient may be infected first. The sewage drainage system, person-to-person contact and building facilities such as lifts and stairs can cause a group of residents in the building to become infected with the virus, which may then infect other residents in the same building. The virus is spread to residents inside and outside the city through person-to-person contact and contaminated environmental facilities.”

Fan Heng nodded repeatedly and pointed out at the same time. Hong Kong is a very representative and densely populated big city. The Hong Kong SAR government’s experience in epidemic prevention and control has direct reference significance for the prevention and control of epidemics in various places.

The accompanying government officials also said that after the outbreak, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, with the cooperation of the Amoy Garden Owners Corporation and relevant residents, worked with multiple government departments to conduct thorough cleaning and cleaning of all units and public places. disinfect. The authorities paid special attention to the cleanliness of sinks, bathtubs, washbasins, toilets and floor drains in toilets and kitchens, and also cleaned water storage tanks.

At the same time, the government has printed a set of epidemic prevention work manuals to remind citizens to properly maintain and repair drainage systems and sanitary equipment. It has been distributed to all property management companies and owners' committees.

Fan Heng and his delegation then visited several more sensitive areas. They also entered private houses to have close contact with local residents, and made some speeches to the media to encourage everyone.

They didn't return to the hotel until dinner time. "