Hong Kong’s four-person restriction on public equipment is expected to continue when the government’s de facto closet reviews anti-pandemic measures on Tuesday, but larger meetings for contact activities and sports will be allowed.
The city recorded 10 new infections in Covid-19 on Monday, the first double-digit build-up in more than a week of numbers, even as the global total of coronavirus-related deaths reached bleak 1 million, according to some accounts.
A familiar with the scenario told the Post that it was “highly unlikely” that existing social estating regulations would be abandoned, as local broadcasts of unknown origin were still in the community.
However, minor adjustments are likely to be made, adding exemptions for meetings and tactile sports such as basketball and football, with games to play without masks, a replacement backed by at least one public government fitness adviser.
It is understood that the Office of Home Affairs has spent weeks pushing for the replacement of regulations governing sports activities as the pandemic decreases locally, but the final resolution will be taken at the assembly on Tuesday. Of the Executive Board, that of Director-General Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor.
Some paid public sites for team sports, including football fields, cricket fields and indoor basketball courts, have already been open since September 18.
Others, however, add basketball courts that pass through the Department of Recreation and Cultural Services, remain closed due to a lack of staff to enforce social estating measures.
Last Friday, Lam declared under control Hong Kong’s third wave of Covid-19, claiming that the city had “essentially contained” a wave of infections several months after a “close battle,” while acknowledging the persistent risk posed by unknown infections. Sources.
On Monday, the daily number of coronavirus cases increased slightly, this was largely due to imported infections, seven of the cases coming from abroad, while the other 3 were transmitted locally but similar to previous patients.
Imported cases included travelers from India, France and Britain, such as when a five-month-old baby arrived from Argentina.
Meanwhile, the Legislative Council’s Finance Committee approved the Hong Kong government’s third pandemic investment circular of $24 billion ($4. 2 billion), which includes the budget for the expansion of quarantine services and the eventual procurement of coronavirus vaccines, such as an injection of cash. -high-success industries such as tourism and catering.
Hong Kong last recorded double-digit infections on 20 September, when 23 cases were recorded. The most recent figures led the city official in general to 5,075, with similar deaths.
Among Sunday’s new cases, an employee of the 22-year-old structure whose infection came here from an unknown source. One of his colleagues, one of the 3 new cases shown.
On Monday, Professor David Hui Shu-cheong said he had the idea that the un traceable infection meant that it was not the right time to alleviate social estlection measures.
“Since we just had an infection with an un trackable source, we want to practice and make sure no other transmission network appears,” Hui said on a radio broadcast. “So I don’t think this is the right time to line up about public meetings. “
While the structure site case shared similarities with an earlier set of infections at the Kwai Tsing container terminal, where an outbreak occurred among longshoremen sharing a non-unusual room, Hui said a similar scenario is less likely to occur. in this case.
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“The structure is a much smaller domain and nine of the worker’s colleagues have already been quarantined,” he said.
But while caution opposes a broad lifting of restrictions, Hui added that he believed that the government could allow the resumption of devout activities, with limits on the number of others allowed to meet.
Hui said Hong Kong academics in Britain do not rush until the country is on the city’s high-risk list on Thursday, as policies and remedies have advanced since the beginning of the pandemic.
In addition, a study team at the University of Hong Kong discovered on an on-site scale in 4 rainy markets that the maximum number of fish stalls in 3 of those locations provided a towel or piece of cloth that many consumers would use to clean their hands afterwards. touch and perch on the fish.
Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, an infectious disease expert who also advises the government on coronavirus, recommended single-use towels to prevent cross-infection.
Several rainy markets were affected by coronavirus outbreaks in the third wave of the city, with the largest group in a Hung Hom market with thirteen infections.
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This article was first published in the South China Morning Post.