The government announced yesterday that from August 12, the quarantine arrangement for arrivals at the airport will be changed to “3 + 4”, that is, 3 days of hotel quarantine plus 4 days of home medical surveillance. “One Day Departure” said that compared with the previous two-week hotel quarantine and the current 7-day hotel quarantine, “3 + 4” has made great progress, and it is worthy of support and will be welcomed by the public. He Bailiang believes that Hong Kong absolutely has the conditions to implement the “0 + 7” policy. He pointed out that the government only needs to review the “3 + 4” operation in the next two weeks and review the actual operation problems during the implementation of the policy before implementing the “0 + 7” policy. Those arriving in Hong Kong do not need to undergo hotel quarantine at all, which will facilitate the resumption of international exchanges.
He Boliang said that he believed that the government had reviewed the data and obtained a “3 + 4” policy improvement after balancing the risk of community infection. He Bailiang pointed out that the rate of confirmed cases of arrivals found in the first two days was about 1.2%; the rate of confirmed cases of arrivals found after the third day was 0.8%, which was already similar to the rate of confirmed cases in the community. ) itself has its ups and downs.” He Bailiang also believes that there is currently no difference between overseas and local mutant virus strains. Even if overseas cases are introduced into the community, the risk of transmission is not high. In addition, there are currently 4,000 confirmed cases in Hong Kong every day. The impact is already similar, so the “0 + 7” policy is conditionally introduced.
When asked whether the “0 + 7” policy will increase the risk to the community if new mutant virus strains appear in the future, He Boliang pointed out that the government has been conducting nucleic acid tests for people arriving in Hong Kong, and relevant tests have always been able to detect the type of virus in the confirmed people. , and he emphasized that even if strict epidemic prevention policies are implemented, such as “7 + 0” and “14 + 0” hotel quarantine, related viruses will always flow into the community, and it is hard to prevent. He Bailiang believes that the key to the epidemic prevention policy is still vaccination. If the government is more aggressive in “crossing the line” for 3-inoculation vaccination, there will be more reasons for Hong Kong to implement “0 + 7”, and society will be able to return to normal sooner.