By The SUN
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| CS Lee is flanked by other officials who joined him in talks with their mainland counterparts |
Just hours
after a top health official said a citywide lockdown was possible if the Covid
infection rate continues to climb, Chief Secretary John Lee said no such
scenario was being planned.
Speaking
at a late-night press briefing Saturday after a day of talks with Shenzhen
officials, Lee said the government is confident the promised assistance from
the central government would help Hong Kong curb the mounting number of
coronavirus cases in the city.
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“At the
present moment we don’t have this plan (lockdown) because we believe that with
the enhanced measures that we have introduced, it will take its effect because
we have just introduced some tighter social distancing measures,” he said.
“Also with
the assistance from the mainland we believe that our capability will be
increased, and we’ll be seeing positive improvement in those areas.”
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His
comments came after Dr Edwin Tsui, controller of the Centre for Health
Protection said during the daily press briefing on the Covid situation in Hong Kong
that extreme measures like a lockdown could not be ruled out if the infection
rate continued to worsen.
Hong Kong
posted yet another record-high 1,514 confirmed infections Saturday, with about the
same number of preliminary positive cases. Three new deaths were also reported.
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According
to Lee, the Guangdong Province and Shenzhen Municipal Government have assured
Hong Kong that it will have enough supply for daily necessities.
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| Vegetable prices in HK soared after a cross-border truck driver tested positive for Covid-19 |
Fears mounted in the past few days that food supply from the mainland would be severely reduced after a cross-border truck driver tested positive, holding up deliveries and causing the prices of vegetables in Hong Kong to soar.
In
addition, the mainland officials reportedly agreed in principle to extend help
to Hong Kong in its effort to contain the spread of Covid-19.
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The
following are the areas where help could be extended:
- The deployment of
mainland experts to help with genetic sequencing
- Boosting Hong
Kong’s testing capacity to about 300,000 per day
- Construction of
more isolation facilities
- Providing rapid
antigen test kits
- Providing
hospital beds, masks and other protective gear.
Press for details
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According
to Lee, five special cross-border task forces will be set up immediately to respond
to Hong Kong’s concerns.
· He gave no specifics about what each group would do, but said that how things are run in the mainland may not be suitable for Hong Kong so adjustments will have to be made.
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He
also said mainland authorities fully support Hong Kong’s “dynamic zero policy”
of infection control.
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