国内英语资讯:With more measures taken, HKSAR govt strives to contain COVID-19 resurgence_时事

国内英语资讯:With more measures taken, HKSAR govt strives to contain COVID-19 resurgence

Yu Dewen, the team leader, said Hong Kong's public institutions have a combined testing capacity of about 10,000 samples per day, which is far from enough to meet the needs of the current epidemic prevention. The support team will increase the daily tests to up to 200,000 or even more.

To alleviate the demand for isolation beds in public hospitals, the HKSAR government has opened a 500-bed makeshift hospital at the AsiaWorld-Expo near the Hong Kong International Airport and a community isolation facility at the Lei Yue Mun Park and Holiday Village.

The makeshift hospital has entered use since Saturday, and received 22 patients on the first day. A total of 14 doctors will take shift to care for the patients during the first week, and the number of on-site doctors will reach 28 by Aug. 8.

The second phase of the makeshift hospital at the venue is being prepared. About 120 to 140 COVID-19 patients will be admitted daily when completed.

A panel of six experts from Wuhan, also dispatched by the central government, has been set up to provide technical support in transforming more parts of the AsiaWorld-Expo into a makeshift hospital.

Meanwhile, the HKSAR government has introduced five rounds of increasingly stringent measures since July 9.

The so-far toughest measures include compulsory mask-wearing in all public places, both indoors and outdoors, and the group gathering limit of two people. Employers have also been encouraged to let employees work from home.