The Hong Kong government’s anti-epidemic policy is against the tide of the world, making society and the economy increasingly backward, falling behind countries or regions, and recently announced the regularization of multiple mobile sampling stations. The director of the Centre for Infection and Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong, Ho Pak-leung, said in a radio program today (7th) that the new coronavirus is trending towards endemic diseases. The strategy of maintaining nucleic acid testing requirements and attempting to interrupt the spread of the local virus is derailing the world and is an inappropriate public health measure. .
He also pointed out that the current focus of epidemic prevention is to prevent severe cases, and it is no longer necessary to identify patients with mild or asymptomatic symptoms. The government should consider the WHO recommendations, cancel the home quarantine requirement for close contacts who have been vaccinated, and allow them to go to work and school as usual. People living with confirmed cases are required to be classified as close contacts and quarantined at home for at least 7 days, which has a great impact on public services. In addition, he said that it is not ruled out that the government will make mobile sampling stations routine for the reverse isolation measures with the mainland to facilitate the mainland citizens to receive tests. However, if the government decides to insist on implementing nucleic acid testing, it should explain with reasons.