The Hong Kong government prevented journalists from using the words “Wuhan pneumonia” and “wu lung” at a press conference on the epidemic, and a government spokesman said that “media representatives attending government events should pay attention to what they say when asking questions and not to stigmatize “. And the Secretary for Food and health, Mr. Chan Siu-chee, at a press conference yesterday, referred to the recently discovered variant of Wuhan pneumonia virus in the UK as “British virus” and “British variant virus”.
Earlier it was reported that Chief Executive Carrie Lam had asked the press officers of various departments to prohibit reporters from asking questions about “Wuhan pneumonia”, and a spokesman for the Hong Kong government had also said that “proper naming is important” and that “media representatives attending government events should be reminded to pay attention to what they say when asking questions and not to stigmatize”.
According to “Standpoint News”, a reporter mentioned the word “martial lung” at a press conference at the Department of Health, and was immediately “reminded” by the press officer of the Department of Health, who chaired the press conference, that “the World Health Organization has named the new virus ‘2019 coronavirus disease’, which can be abbreviated to ‘new coronavirus (also known as Chinese communist virus, COVID-19)’ when asking questions”.
At the press conference, Chan Siu-chee announced that Hong Kong had banned British flights from arriving in Hong Kong from midnight on the 21st and extended the quarantine period for people arriving from the UK. She opened her speech with “British virus”, “British variant of the virus” to refer to the variant of the virus strain, without using the official code name issued by the British government: VUI-202012/ 01. The government’s expert advisor and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, Gabriel Leung, attended the press conference and used the scientific name N501Y to refer to the mutant strain of the virus.
Netizens have lambasted this, “Wuhan pneumonia resident British virus!” The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible solution to the problem of pneumonia. “Hong Kong is suffering from multiple standards all day long, today after speaking so, after a row of speaking back to some things will be completely opposite, keep slapping themselves in the mouth”.
In addition, due to the variant of the epidemic, the Hong Kong government will extend the two people to limit the gathering order, mask order and evening market from 6 p.m. ban on dine-in measures until January 6 next year.
Chan Siu-chee pointed out that the variant of the virus transmission rate is high 70%, although there is no individual serious situation, but the Hong Kong Government attaches great importance to the new development of the epidemic, Hong Kong in the past 14 days there are 80 imported cases, of which 20% from the United Kingdom, coupled with the Christmas and New Year holidays, many international students back to Hong Kong for vacation, that there is a need to immediately launch severe and targeted measures.
Chen also said that the current situation in Hong Kong is at the most critical and critical moment, although many tightening measures, but there are still dozens to 100 new cases per day, the average number of individuals of unknown origin for seven days to maintain a high level of 31 cases, the next two weeks of the development of the epidemic depends on whether the public can avoid Christmas and New Year’s parties, to strengthen vigilance and intercept the transmission of the British variant of the virus to Hong Kong. She also said she would amend the legislation to allow the government to increase the current mandatory quarantine period of 14 days when necessary, to be approved by the Executive Council and then announced.
Government expert adviser, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, Mr. Gabriel Leung, said that the University of Hong Kong has analyzed the confirmed Wuhan pneumonia patients in Hong Kong, and temporarily did not find the virus in the body of patients with genetic mutations, but will again on the past 14 days the United Kingdom arrived in Hong Kong for detailed genetic sequencing of confirmed cases, to understand whether the variant virus N501Y has been introduced into Hong Kong.
Leung also said that if the transmission force increased by about 75% of the variant virus into the local, will push up the virus reproduction rate in Hong Kong, the current 0.81 pushed up to 1.42; if the reproduction rate is higher than 1, the epidemic will rapidly deteriorate, and uncontrolled, so that the current slowly controlled epidemic reversed. Leung continued to point out that the study did not initially find that the new strain of the virus will lead to more serious illness of patients.
For the Macau government recently said that the public can choose which virus vaccination, while Hong Kong residents are not available, Chan Siu Chi said that the government pre-purchased three kinds of vaccines not at the same time to Hong Kong, even after the arrival of a series of procedures, such as freezing, thawing, etc., said there is no choice is premature.
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