HONG KONG, March 10 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese mainland expert has said that Hong Kong's COVID-19 epidemic situation is approaching the peak and plateau stage, with the exponential rise in COVID-19 cases contained.
The mainland medical expert team and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government have formed a high degree of consensus on Hong Kong's epidemic trend and anti-epidemic priorities, milestones and action plans, Liang Wannian, leader of the mainland medical expert team in Hong Kong supporting the epidemic fight, told the press the on Wednesday.
Liang, also head of the COVID-19 response expert panel under China's National Health Commission, noted that reducing deaths in confirmed patients, severe cases and infections are the most pressing anti-epidemic tasks in Hong Kong at the moment.
It is also important that Hong Kong implements more precise and effective measures, and the care of the elderly, the most critical priority group, should be given priority, he said.
Liang believes that the HKSAR government is working on the above area, including assigning the Queen Elizabeth Hospital as a designated hospital for COVID-19 patients on Wednesday, among other anti-epidemic measures, which Liang thinks will help reduce the mortality rate due to the epidemic.
Other measures include providing more isolation facilities for infected elderly patients and accelerating their vaccination, and introducing closed-loop management for staff of elderly residential care homes. ■
