Mongolia joins Airports Council International just as it reports 1311 new covid cases
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National Civil Aviation Center joins Airports Council International
The National Civil Aviation Center (NCAC) of Mongolia along with its 19 affiliated airports has become a member of the Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific Region.
As a member of the ACI, authorities of the NCAC held a virtual meeting with Mr. Stefano Baronci, Director General of ACI Asia-Pacific Region, receiving information on the recent result of studies on the COVID-19 vaccine, test and quarantines in other countries as well as exchanging views.
ACI launched Airport Health Accreditation Program in July 2020 to assist airports by assessing new health measures and procedures introduced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic against global standards. And the program provides airports with an assessment of how aligned their health measures are with the ICAO Council Aviation Recovery Task Force (CART) Recommendations along with industry best practices. As membership of the NCAC has been certified recently, our country is preparing to receive airport health accreditation from ACI.
ACI is the only global trade representative of the world’s airports. Established in 1991, ACI represents airports' interests with Governments and international organizations such as ICAO, develops standards, policies and recommended practices for airports, and provides information and training opportunities to raise standards around the world.
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Covid cases rise by 1311 in Mongolia on 19 April 2021
According to the Mongolian Ministry of Health, 1,311 people are confirmed with covid after performing 10,431 tests nationwide in the last 24 hours. 1,214 of the confirmed covid cases are recorded in Ulaanbaatar while 97 are registered in rural areas.
As a result, the total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Mongolia have reached 24,195. In the last 24 hours, 459 people have been discharged from hospital, making the number of recoveries 12,860. As of 20 April 2021, 3,520 people are undergoing treatment and of whom 63 are in very critical health condition.
Two people aged 75 and 82 have died from covid. The two covid-related deaths were reported in the capital city and Zavkhan aimag.
Morrison: Decisive lockdown let Australians escape the catastrophe
Australia and New Zealand began to implement the border opening system on Monday (19th) to launch travel without isolation. Australian Prime Minister Morrison stated in a speech on the 19th that Australia's success in controlling the CCP virus epidemic must be attributed to its decision to lock down its borders in a timely manner.
According to a report by news.com.au today (20th), the WebMD quoted that Scott Morrison delivered a speech at the Business Council of Australia last night, telling about Australia's experience and prospects in fighting the epidemic.
Morrison mentioned that Australia has successfully controlled the covid epidemic, escaped the most serious public health crisis today, and avoided economic recession like other countries because of the epidemic. He emphasized the key reason lies in Australia's timely blockade of China's borders.
Morrison pointed out that when the epidemic hit, the Australian federal government had just ended the 11-year fiscal deficit stage, so Australia had sufficient financial resources to deal with the epidemic. Also importantly, Australia was the first group in the world to target people from China. One of the countries whose borders are blocked by travelers, and Australia announced the outbreak two weeks earlier than most countries in the world.
On 1 February 2020, Australia began to ban the entry of foreign travelers from China, and it also stipulated that Australian residents and citizens from China must enter and quarantine for 14 days; on 27 February, Morrison announced a national outbreak, and the World Health Organization waited until 12 March to announce a pandemic.
Morrison emphasized in his speech last night that if the border with China is not blocked in time, the epidemic in Australia will become more serious. He confessed that the decision at the time angered China, but it was a decision that allowed Australians to escape.
Australia currently has 910 deaths due to the epidemic; although the number of deaths is much lower than that of other OECD member countries. But Morrison reminded that since the death rate of confirmed patients in Australia is actually not low, the anti-epidemic work should not be taken lightly.
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Confirmed cases soar again, Turkey's epidemic prevention work is difficult to boost economy
The CCP virus outbreak in Turkey broke out again rapidly and was difficult to contain. The number of deaths and the number of severe cases reported on the 19th reached 4 times and 2 times that of 1 month ago, respectively. Under the attack of the "virus epidemic" and the "economic epidemic," the ruling authorities wanted to save both, but no one could be saved.
The Central News Agency reported that according to the report of the Turkish Ministry of Health, 87 people died of covid on 19 March , and a record 341 cases were reached on April 19. The number of severely ill patients increased from 1547 cases increased to 3319 cases.
The number of cases in Turkey on 21 February is 6,546, which came to the "segmental low-end" of the second wave. The government boldly decided to lift many epidemic prevention bans on 2 March and enter the "normality under control". As a result, the number of confirmed diagnoses, the number of deaths, and the number of severely ill patients immediately hit new highs.
As the epidemic situation remained high, the authorities resumed certain restrictions on 29 March, but the number of confirmed cases from 7 April still exceeded 50,000 in consecutive days. The government had to "overweight" and announce a local lock down on the first day of Ramadan on April 13. Two weeks.
At this time, the tightening of epidemic prevention seems to be of no avail, and the number of confirmed cases continued to soar in the next week. Since April 14th, more than 60,000 new cases have been added for 4 consecutive days. The number of single-day deaths reached three digits since March 21, and has continued to increase so far.
Turkey has an increase of 55,149 covid cases on 19 April, with a total of 4.323596 cases. If the trend remains unchanged, it may surpass the United Kingdom in the near future and become the country with the sixth highest cumulative number of cases in the world except China.
The authorities hope that the epidemic prevention will be successful to attract foreign tourists and allow tourism income to support economic Turkey, but when does the epidemic end?
Repeated policy contradictions and people's non-compliance with the anti-epidemic regulations have led to a breakthrough in epidemic prevention; short- and long-term economic problems such as currency devaluation, high unemployment, soaring prices, and frequent changes in the financial cabinet have made the epidemic prevention situation worse.
At the same time, when faced with the "virus epidemic" and the "economic epidemic," the ruling authorities fell into the dilemma of "blocking the economy and not blocking the body."
Since the first case of covid was diagnosed on 11 March 2020, Turkey has been criticized for the opaque epidemic. Although public health experts have repeatedly called for a complete nationwide lock down for a period of time, because the economic situation is on the verge of crisis, the authorities did not have the courage to completely stabilize the epidemic and rebuild after destruction. Only on the Eid al-Fitr last year and the New Year’s Eve this year were curfews against the epidemic. 4 days, 3 days. But the economy did not improve as a result.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced on the 19th that of the more than 83 million people, more than 12.2 million people have received the first dose of the vaccine, and nearly 7.8 million people have completed the two doses.
In the vaccination work launched on 14 January, 20 million people have been vaccinated in more than three months. If calculated at a constant rate, it will take more than half a year to complete the vaccination of at least 60 million people planned by the authorities.
Mass vaccination to achieve herd immunity is still Turkey's current main epidemic prevention strategy. However, compared with the period when the vaccine was just started, the vaccination rate has obviously slowed down. How to speed up the progress of vaccine delivery to promote epidemic prevention has become an important issue of the Ministry of Health.
As for the news that the people who have completed the vaccination are still "in the center", Turkey, which has ordered 100 million doses of this vaccine, now in addition to accelerating the development of local vaccines and continuing to negotiate other vaccines, it can only hope that the ineffectiveness of vaccines will not be a universal problem.
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The Japanese Space Agency web-site was hacked, the police exposed the conspiracy of the Chinese Communist Party 61419
More than 200 companies or research institutions, including the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), were hit by a large-scale cyber attack in 2016. The Japanese police today rarely confirmed that they were stranded in Japan at that time. A member of the Communist Party of China is involved in the case. At present, a letter from a Chinese man involved in the case was sent to the prosecution for investigation, but the man has left the country.
According to the "NHK" report, the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department pointed out that when the police were investigating the cyberattack, they discovered that a male system engineer with Chinese nationality in his 30s and a Communist Party member who entered Japan at the time of the incident had had a five-degree pass. A server in Japan is rented under a pseudonym for use in cyber attacks.
He sent back information such as the ID of the server he rented in Japan to the Chinese hacker group named "Tick". "Tick" suspected of following the instructions of the CCP military to use rented Japanese servers to conduct cyber attacks against JAXA and important defense-related companies, targeting more than 200 Japanese research institutions and companies.
In addition, the police also revealed that there was also a Chinese man who belonged to the "61419 Troop" under the CCP's military specializing in cyber attacks, and instructed another Chinese man to enter Japan to rent a server under a false name.
An investigation by the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department revealed that the large-scale hacking attack appeared to be carried out by the Chinese Communist Party’s military instructed Tick. Although the two Chinese men involved were no longer in Japan, they were involved in illegal activities. Today (20th) one of them was 30 The multi-year-old male sent a letter to the prosecutor for investigation.
The police have contacted more than 200 companies that were hacked to confirm the damage.
The report said that cyber attack hackers usually use special techniques that are difficult to trace, making it very difficult for the police to search. This time the investigating unit revealed that there was a case at the national level, which is a very rare situation.
The Japanese police pointed out that the CCP’s "61419 Troop" is a special force for cyber attacks on Japan, and there is another "61398 Troop" specifically for cyber attacks on the US.
The CCP has made the collection of medical data including genetic information a national priority.
Genomic data may be weaponized by Beijing and used in intelligence and military operations against Americans.
Because of the racial diversity of the American population, American genome information is particularly valuable to the CCP.
The CCP’s latest five-year plan until the end of 2025 lists "gene and biotechnology research" as a key area that is vital to "national security and overall development."
Weaponization of genetic data
• According to the National Center for Counterintelligence and Security (NCSC), genomic data may be weaponized by Beijing for intelligence and military operations against Americans.
• NCSC said that genetic data and other personal information previously stolen in cyberattacks may be used by Beijing to "precisely target" individuals in the US government or companies for potential "surveillance, manipulation or blackmail."
• For example, the regime can analyze genetic data and health records to identify weaknesses in a target, such as addiction or mental illness. This information may be used to blackmail, recruit foreigners to spy for the regime, or suppress foreign dissidents.
Catch up with the United States in the field of biotechnology
• A large amount of genomic information (a person's entire genetic sequence) can promote the development of precision medicine, which is a frontier field that seeks to tailor medical solutions according to a person's genes, environment and lifestyle, which can make China surpass the United States and become the world's biology The leader of technology.
• Due to the ethnic diversity of the American population, American genome information is particularly valuable to the CCP. This is because different data sets are more useful in the study of identifying genetic diseases.
• A large number of genetic data sets can also be used to improve Beijing's artificial intelligence tools.
Collect information through legal and illegal means
Investment and acquisition
On February 6, 2020, a technician makes samples in a laboratory in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
• Chinese companies invest in U.S. companies that process sensitive medical and personal data to enable them to enter the U.S. market and obtain this data.
• Since 2010, the total foreign direct investment (FDI) of the Chinese Communist Party in the US medical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors has exceeded US$8 billion.
• In 2013, the Chinese genetic research company BGI Group acquired Complete Genomics, a California-based sequencing machine manufacturer, for US$118 million.
• Since the pandemic, BGI has been promoting its COVID-19 testing kits and providing support to laboratories around the world. As of August 2020, the company has sold 35 million COVID-19 rapid test kits to 180 countries and established 58 laboratories in 18 countries. No laboratory has been established in the United States.
• Former NCSC director William Ivanina warned that BGI’s laboratory is like a Trojan horse: by setting up genetic sequencing equipment in the United States, the company can use these equipment to mine American genetic information in the future.
• In 2015, the Chinese investment company "WuXi Healthcare Ventures" invested in 23andMe, a US company that provides genetic testing to customers and maintains a huge genome database.
Partnership
• Chinese companies that provide low-cost gene sequencing services have also established partnerships with American hospitals, universities, and research institutions to enable these companies to obtain American genetic data.
• A report in 2019 showed that at least 15 Chinese companies have been approved to perform genetic testing or sequencing on American patients.
Network attacks
• In recent years, the CCP has accumulated a large amount of US healthcare and other personal data through several large-scale cyber attacks.
• In 2014, the Chinese Communist Party hacked Anthem, a US health insurance company, and stole the health ID numbers, names, dates of birth, addresses, social insurance numbers, and employment and income data of 78 million customers. In 2019, the Ministry of Justice accused two Chinese citizens of participating in hacking activities.
• In 2014, Chinese hackers broke into the Office of Personnel Management (Office of Personnel Management) and stole 23 million records of federal employees, including sensitive personal information submitted for security review.
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Why did the United States withdraw its troops from Afghanistan? Blinken: Focus on dealing with China's issues
The Biden-Harris administration announced that the U.S. military will withdraw from Afghanistan. Secretary of State Blinken said a few days ago that the United States must now concentrate its resources on dealing with threats such as China (CCP) and the pandemic.
The United States' decision to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan has aroused international concern. On April 18, Blinken stated in an interview with the ABC morning program "This Week" that the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is in line with the Biden-Harris administration's governing goals.
Blinken said, "The terrorist threat has moved to other places. We have other important issues to deal with, including relations with China, climate change, and the epidemic. These are places where we must invest energy and resources."
President Biden announced on April 14 that the U.S. military will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks this year. He said that it is time to end America's longest war.
Biden also mentioned that the troop withdrawal is to concentrate on responding to the threat of the CCP, "We must focus on the challenges ahead."
CNN reported that former President Trump also affirmed the decision of the Biden administration to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, and bluntly stated that it was a "beautiful and positive" thing.
But Trump believes that the September 11 withdrawal deadline is too late and should be completed on May 1 ahead of schedule. Trump has previously set a withdrawal plan, with the purpose of shifting the US strategic focus and focusing on the CCP.
Before announcing his withdrawal from Afghanistan, Blinken recently met with Afghan leaders in Kabul and with NATO allies in Brussels. He said that al-Qaeda, which carried out terrorist attacks 20 years ago, has been significantly weakened, "its ability to launch attacks on the United States from Afghanistan is no longer there."
Blinken also said, "We will have a way to observe whether the terrorist threat in Afghanistan has revived and reappeared."
Lin Wencheng, a professor at the Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, believes that it is undesirable for the Chinese Communist Party to end the war in Afghanistan by the United States. The United States will focus on the Asia-Pacific in the future. All the troops that have withdrawn from Afghanistan will certainly return to the Asia-Pacific region to curb the CCP’s surrounding areas and threats to Taiwan.
Recently, the CCP has frequently disrupted Taiwan, exacerbating tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and arousing close attention from the United States. Blinken has warned the CCP that if it uses force against Taiwan, it will make serious mistakes.
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KIA launches multiple attacks on Myanmar military
Source : The Irrawaddy
Ethnic armed group the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) attacked a police outpost in Maden Yang village in Lone Khin village-tract in Kachin State’s Hpakant Township around 7pm Monday. The number of casualties is still unknown.
“We heard gunfire and explosions until 9pm. Locals are planning to flee from their homes as gunfire has been heard every night recently,” said a local resident.
The KIA’s Battalion 6 has been attacking outposts of the Myanmar military’s Division 33 in Hpakant Township. On Sunday night and Monday morning, it attacked two military outposts near Gensi village in Lone Khin village-tract and Aungbarlay village, according to local residents.
“Myanmar’s military bombed with jet fighters around 9am this morning and residents from both Gensi and Aungbarlay had to flee. Around 1,000 people from both villages have fled,” said a Gensi resident on Monday morning.
The KIA has warned local people to flee to safe places.
Local residents said the KIA occupied the two military outposts on Monday morning. KIA information officer Colonel Naw Bu confirmed the armed group’s ongoing fighting with Myanmar’s military in Hpakant, but said he had been unable to contact commanders on the ground and thus did not know exact details.
“Recently, as a preemptive measure, our troops at the front lines are seizing military outposts depending on the situation. Headquarters did not instruct them to occupy this or that outpost. The commanders on the ground assess the situation and decide which outpost to attack. Especially, we are focused on retaking control of outposts that we had previously lost to the military,” said Colonel Naw Bu.
The two bases the KIA attacked on Sunday and Monday were formerly outposts of the KIA’s Battalion 6. The KIA lost them to Myanmar’s military in 2016.
Fighting between the KIA and the Myanmar military broke out again in June 2011 after a 17-year truce collapsed. Clashes virtually ceased from December 2018 to January of this year as the two sides were in the process of negotiating a bilateral ceasefire.
Following the junta’s Feb. 1 coup, the KIA asked the military’s Northern Command not to harm peaceful Kachin people protesting against the regime.
But tensions grew after two civilians were shot dead in a crackdown by the security forces on anti-regime protesters in the Kachin capital Myitkyina a month later.
Since then, the KIA has carried out a series of attacks on police and military outposts in Injangyang, Momauk, Namtu, Hpakant, Tanai and Shwegu townships. The KIA has also occupied the strategic Alaw Bum base near the border with China.
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Prominent protest leader escapes arrest by Myanmar military
Source : The Irrawaddy
One of Myanmar’s most prominent anti-regime protest leaders has escaped arrest after junta security forces failed to capture him at his home on Monday.
Soldiers and police—some in plainclothes—arrived at Ko Tayzar San’s apartment in Mandalay and forcibly entered by smashing down the door.
The protest leader was not there at the time of the raid as he has been in hiding elsewhere.
The failed attempt to detain the 32-year-old comes a few days after the regime seized another protest leader Ko Wai Moe Naing in Sagaing Region’s Monywa. His mother said she has lost contact with her son since then and is worried about his safety.
Ko Tayzar San has become a familiar face in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, since early February for being at the forefront of anti-regime protests. He is known for his leading role in organizing the first ever protest against the junta in Myanmar just a few days after their Feb.1 coup, while other activists in the country were still deliberating their course of action.
Following that first protest in Mandalay, anti-regime rallies started taking place across the country.
Former US President George W. Bush, Ko Tayzar San, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and Laura Bush in 2016.
After the failed raid on his home on Monday, Ko Tayzar San wrote on his Facebook page that he had abandoned the place for some time.
“But they rampaged through the whole apartment and took everything,” he said.
The protest leader said he was upset that his collection of books at the apartment was ‘robbed’ by the regime’s troops. Ko Tayzar San is also an executive director at a free library in Mandalay.
“The Tatmadaw (Myanmar’s military) has become a gang of robbers. It would be gut-wrenching for its founder General Aung San,” he wrote. Aung San established the Myanmar military 79 years ago and was also the father of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s detained leader.
Ko Tayzar San said the raid and robbery were testaments to how Tatmadaw troops have behaved in the country’s ethnic areas, where fighting between the army and ethnic armed groups has raged for decades. Extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, arson and looting by the army have been widely reported.
“Now we have experienced it personally,” he said.
“It also proves that they [Tatmadaw] are our common enemy who have been hindering our attempt to establish federal democracy in the country,” he added.
Before Ko Tayzar San came to prominence as a protest leader, he trained as a medical doctor but worked as a librarian and NGO worker with a focus on public health, political education and youth capacity building.
News (10) to (15) / Source : Mingpao / Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
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Five common SARS-CoV-2 variants
. B.1.617: It was first found in India, with two variants of E484Q and L452R, which have intensified the epidemic locally in recent months
. B.1.1.7: A case first appeared in the United Kingdom in October last year. The variant virus strains currently tested in confirmed cases in Hong Kong are mainly B.1.1.7 with the N501Y variant; B.1.1.7 also includes other variants such as P681H variant
. B.1.351: The case first appeared in South Africa in December 2020. The incidence is higher in the healthy young group, and there are also related imported cases in Hong Kong
. B.1.1.207: The first case appeared in Nigeria in August 2020, with P681H mutation like B.1.1.7
. P.1: In January of this year, Japan tested this virus strain on four entrants who had traveled to Brazil's Amazon. Brazilian experts believe that the P.1 virus strain has spread in Brazil as early as July 2020.
Indian in Hong Kong initially diagnosed with South African variant virus
The 29-year-old Indian male who was diagnosed in the community and tested the N501Y variant of the new coronavirus strain. The source of the infection with his girlfriend is still unknown. CUHK expert Xu Shuchang yesterday revealed that the preliminary results of the Indian male’s genetic sequencing showed that it was a South African variant virus. He was quarantined at the hotel. At that time, a quarantine person of African descent was diagnosed at the same level. According to the US CDC, the infectivity of the South African variant virus has increased by about 50%, and the efficacy of serum antibodies to neutralize the virus after the vaccine has been moderately reduced. The Centre for Health Protection did not announce the whereabouts of the female patient in the past two days. It only disclosed that she worked at the Central Plaza Clinic in Central and had a lower viral load than an Indian male. Some experts said that if a female nurse is tested for antibodies, she may contract and infect Indian men in the local community.
There were 12 more confirmed cases in Hong Kong on 19 April 2021, of which 11 were imported cases, and N501Y was detected in 4 cases. One local infection was an 84-year-old Weng who lived on the 8th floor of Block 2, Ai Fai House, Yau Oi Village, Tuen Mun. In addition, less than 10 cases were initially diagnosed, and at least two cases were of unknown origin, all living in Tsuen Wan.
After the 29-year-old Indian male completed the hotel quarantine on the 21st, he will temporarily live in the Birgarth Building, Jordan from April 9. N501Y was detected on the 16th, and his 31-year-old girlfriend was diagnosed the day before (18th). The Center for Health Protection requested a mandatory inspection for those who were in Central Plaza in the middle of the night before a specified time limit. Until yesterday, it was disclosed that the female patient was a staff member of the Optimal Family Health Clinic in Central Plaza, who was responsible for blood sampling and receiving patients. She last went to work on the 15th and had arranged close contact. Clinic staff and patients are quarantined. A notice was posted outside the clinic yesterday stating that it was informed that a nurse had confirmed the diagnosis the day before, and the deep cleansing would be temporarily closed and reopened tomorrow.
The male and female patients have no symptoms, but the female patient has a virus value greater than 30, and the Indian male is between 15 and 17, which means that the female patient has a lower viral load than him. As for whether the female patient has been tested for antibodies, the Department of Health asked the Hospital Authority in this newspaper, but the Hospital Authority did not respond. The Hospital Authority stated that the two were in stable condition.
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South African variant virus diagnosed on the same floor of the hotel quarantine
Environmental samples are negative, Xu Shuchang advocates employees to test antibodies
Xu Shuchang, chair professor of the Department of Respiratory System at CUHK, said that the preliminary results of genetic sequencing of the variant virus strain of the Indian male showed that it belonged to the South African variant virus (B.1.351). He lived on the 16th floor during the quarantine period of the Ramada Hotel A quarantine person of African descent was diagnosed. Xu said that when hotel staff deliver meals to quarantine persons, they will hang on the hooks for them to receive. The two parties will not come in contact with each other. The relevant environmental samples are negative and it is impossible to determine whether environmental pollution has caused the infection. Xu suggested that the authorities conduct antibody tests for the hotel staff involved, and the staff of the clinics employed by female patients should also test the antibodies to provide more evidence to analyze the source of the infection.
Asked if the South African variant virus flows into the community, it will cause a major outbreak. Xu Shuchang said that the most important thing is to quarantine the close contacts of the two as soon as possible, and force those who have been to the relevant premises to be tested. The hotel has no positive cases for the time being. Pay close attention to the next one. Will there be other cases of variant viruses in the community for two weeks? He emphasized that although laboratory data show that the BioNTech vaccine has a reduced efficiency against the South African variant virus, it is still effective and can neutralize the variant virus.
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South Africa variant increases infectivity by 50%, vaccine efficacy drops
There were 227 N501Y cases recorded in Hong Kong. Except for the two mentioned above, the others were imported cases. More than 90 cases were from the British virus and more than 27 cases were from South Africa. According to the US CDC, the infectivity of the South African variant virus has increased by about 50%, and the efficacy of serum antibodies in neutralizing the virus after the vaccine has been moderately reduced.
As for the source of the female patient’s infection, Xu Shuchang said that she had been in contact with an Indian male on April 9. If she was infected by a man at that time, it has exceeded the peak period of viral load, and the viral load will be lower. If she is tested for antibodies, she is expected to have infected more than For 10 days, community infection is not ruled out. The Director of the Infection and Infectious Diseases Center of the University of Hong Kong, He Boliang, said that if a female patient is tested for antibodies, she may be infected and infected with an Indian male in the community. As for whether people who share toilets with female patients in the workplace need to be quarantined, why do they think that they should "spread the net wider."
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He Boliang: Hotel staff should check at least once a week
Five environmental samples collected by the Center for Health Protection at the Ramada Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui were negative, coming from the door handles of five rooms. He Boliang said in Hong Kong and Taiwan's "Millennium" that the government should confirm the genetic profile of the male patient as soon as possible, and analyze several confirmed cases in the same hotel earlier to compare whether the genetic sequence is the same. He said that the staff of the quarantine hotel had insufficient inspections every two weeks and should be increased to at least once a week. In particular, the Ramada Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui should conduct serum tests for the staff. He urged the government to conduct a comprehensive review of the hotel's operating procedures, including how to clean and disinfect the rooms of confirmed cases.
Fujian woman diagnosed positive after arrival in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong on 20 April 2021, there are 8 new confirmed cases of covid, of which 4 are local cases, 3 are imported cases, and the remaining one is pending classification. The 56-year-old woman (Case 11701), who has not determined whether it was a local or imported case. She came to Hong Kong by high-speed rail from Fujian via Shenzhen Bay on 6 April. She had a headache on 17 April, and spent most of the incubation period in Hong Kong. Zhang Zhujun, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Center for Health Protection, said that the patient had received two doses of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine on 19 February and 10 March.
After arriving in Hong Kong, the patient received home quarantine at a sub-divided unit in Furong Building, Fu Rong Street, Tsuen Wan. The test was negative on 7 April and the sample turned positive on the 12th day of arrival in Hong Kong. Friends and more than a dozen sub-divided residents were sent for quarantine. Zhang Zhujun said that the patient has not left the residence, and the quarantine hand strap is not abnormal; her friends who live with her have visited the convenience store and market near the residence. Since the patient’s co-residents will enter and leave the home, it is necessary to wait for the results of genetic analysis and other tests to know whether the case is a local infection or an inbound case.
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