Yuan Guoyong: It is safer to lift the mask order from March to April, and the “post-mask wave” will lead to the spread of other viruses

After three years of the epidemic, the isolation order will be lifted next Monday, and only the mask order remains. Yuan Guoyong, a government expert consultant, said that it is not suitable to relax the mask order for the time being, and it will not be possible until March and April when the temperature rises. At present, the most important thing is to deploy to deal with the “post-mask wave”, so as to avoid the rapid spread of other infectious diseases after the mask order is lifted. Public medical care Services would be paralyzed. He also said that citizens, especially the elderly and those with chronic diseases, should also get vaccinated against the new crown vaccine again before next winter.

The overall number of confirmed cases of the new crown has dropped from about 4,000 last Thursday and the 28th of the new year to less than 2,000 on the third day of the new year. It rebounded slightly yesterday on the fifth day of the new year, with a total of 2,401 local confirmed cases and another 64 cases Imported cases, 28 more patients passed away.

Most of the anti-epidemic measures have been lifted. Yuan Guoyong, chair professor of the Department of Microbiology of the University of Hong Kong, said in a radio program yesterday that it is not appropriate to lift the mask order at this stage. We should wait until the temperature rises above 20 degrees Celsius in late March and early April. The human body has less inflammatory response in spring. If it is serious, the mask can only be removed, but other infectious diseases such as influenza will be more likely to spread at that time, so pay attention to the “back wave of masks”. He pointed out: “The post-mask wave can cause quite serious consequences. The Hospital Authority may really not be able to bear it, but it must go through pain.” He also pointed out that after going through this pain, the community’s immune barrier can be strengthened and do a good job for the next winter flu season. get ready.

Advocate review and investigation on the new crown epidemic

Yuan Guoyong also pointed out that about 13,000 people died in this epidemic, and believed that the government should follow the example of SARS after the end and set up an independent committee to investigate. “Tracking and isolation are really not enough. If we did enough at the beginning, the epidemic will slow down much more slowly. These things need to be re-examined, why do nursing homes cause this. Those are very serious things, and next time the elderly will be infected.” He also suggested that the elderly wear masks in winter, and citizens should be vaccinated every year, and the nasal vaccine developed by the University of Hong Kong It has been used in 4 provinces and cities in the Mainland, but when it will be available in Hong Kong, it is up to the pharmaceutical company to decide.

HKU Research Selected as Landmark Paper in The Lancet

In addition, for the 200th anniversary of the founding of the international medical journal “Pricking Acupuncture”, 34 landmark papers were selected from 1823 to 2022. Among them, the research team led by Yuan Guoyong and Chen Fuhe, clinical associate professor of the Department of Microbiology of the University of Hong Kong, published in January 2020 about The paper on the new type of pneumonia was selected. The paper studied a family group in the Shenzhen Hospital of the University of Hong Kong. It was the first document to confirm that the new type of pneumonia can be transmitted from person to person.

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