Hong Kong has recently seen a number of confirmed cases of imported new coronaviruses, with experts suggesting the government ban flights to Hong Kong from countries such as the Philippines, India and Pakistan.
The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) announced on Tuesday (April 6) that there were seven new confirmed cases, including four imported cases from India and Pakistan and three local cases. One of the local patients is a 12-day-old baby boy, the youngest person diagnosed since the outbreak began in Hong Kong.
The University of Hong Kong Center for Infectious and Contagious Diseases director Ho Pak Leung said in a talk show on Hong Kong Commercial Radio on the 6th, the airport and quarantine hotels have led to the risk of imported cases into the community, and foreign visitors to Hong Kong after the arrival of quarantine is not frequent enough, if not control the risk of imported cases, may trigger the fifth wave of the epidemic. He hopes the authorities will consider suspending flights to Hong Kong from the Philippines, India and Pakistan.
Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday, quoting Hui Shu-cheong, a chair professor of respiratory medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as saying that about 40 percent of the recent confirmed cases with the mutated strain of the virus came from the Philippines, mostly involving domestic helpers. He said the government should consider banning flights from the Philippines to Hong Kong, but at the same time, it should consider that the ban would affect the hiring of foreign domestic helpers, so he suggested that foreign domestic helper agencies should first arrange for foreign domestic helpers to receive the new crown vaccine before coming to Hong Kong.
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