A RESEARCH ABOUT “CORONAVIRUS” IN HONG KONG

A chinese professors across the globe are becoming increasingly vocal about the handaling of the coronavirus outbreak. Yuen Kwok – Yung, a world-renowned microbiologist, became the first expert to call the Hong Kong situation a “community outbreak” and warned that the city could become the “next Wuhan”. He told that Time Higher Education that he was driven by his conscience and concern for public well- being. When control measures or public response do not go according to scientific evidence, we as a public should speak out.

Other than that, Mr Jeremy Lim, a partner at global consultancy firm Oliver Wyman’s health and life sciences practice, said that more developed nations tend to have better detection and reporting of cases, more “sophisticated” contact tracing, and a wider availability of test kits. It gave people “very concrete actions” that handed back measure of control to people whose sense of control will feel threatened.

Besides that, Chief Executive has also backed down from a plan to offer free treatment in the city to mainlanders and anyone else needing hospitalisation because of the coronavirus. They also giving a face mask for free to everyone to safe as much as can. There are thousands of medical workers went on strike in the city last week to demand a complete ban on entries from mainland China, worried that hospitals would be overwhelmed by new cases as mainland Chinese sought to use Hong Kong’s healthcare system. There have also been protests against the use of certain housing estates as potential quarantine facilities. Various moves by the government in relation to the coronavirus have also exacerbated the situation.