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Covid: China’s First Medical Team Arrives to Support Hong Kong
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February 18, 2022
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1:31Now PlayingChina’s first team of medical experts arrived in Hong Kong to support the city’s worst Covid-19 wave since the pandemic. Chief Executive Carrie Lam greeted them at the Shenzhen Bay Port.
The team of epidemiological experts arrived along with two mobile testing vehicles.
They were sent to Hong Kong to help the city to raise testing capabilities and assist with medical resources and facilities.
Lam told journalists after welcoming the mainland health experts that Hong Kong would do everything to fight the pandemic.
Hong Kong is still working out details of a plan to test its population for Covid, as surging cases overwhelm the city’s health system and throw its zero-tolerance approach to the virus into disarray.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam said details of the testing blitz are still being worked on, according to a government transcript of a media conference released late Thursday.
Hospitals in Shenzhen are recruiting staff for the Hong Kong testing blitz and Guangdong province will supply about 1,000 health workers, Sing Tao reported, citing people it didn’t identify.
Officials have announced measures to free up space at hospitals and isolation facilities, with segregating positive cases from the community a key way of containing the virus under the Covid Zero strategy Hong Kong and China are still pursuing.
Chinese President Xi Jinping called this week for Hong Kong to take “all necessary measures” to contain the widening outbreak, which came after months of being virus-free. While other parts of the world start to live alongside Covid, Beijing is continuing to pursue elimination, with mass testing a key tool in an arsenal that also includes effectively closed borders and lengthy mandatory quarantines for travelers.
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