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Covid-19 patients under home quarantine to wear tracking wristbands from July 15, Hong Kong health minister says; city logs 2,863 infections | South China Morning Post
▻https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3184846/coronavirus-hong-kong-covid-19-app-update-will

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Covid-19 patients under home quarantine to wear tracking wristbands from July 15, Hong Kong health minister says; city logs 2,863 infections
Health chief Professor Lo Chung-mau also says government is studying to turn part of seven-day hotel quarantine into home isolation. Lo earlier unveiled plans for online bookings for Covid tests for travellers heading to mainland China.All Covid-19 patients under home quarantine will be required to wear tracking wristbands starting from Friday, Hong Kong’s health minister has announced, while revealing the government is preparing for a worst-case scenario as infection numbers rebound.The new plans came as the city recorded 2,863 cases, including 252 imported ones. Seven additional deaths were reported. Hong Kong’s overall coronavirus tally stands at 1,273,663 infections, with 9,419 related fatalities.Secretary of Health Professor Lo Chung-mau also said the government was studying to turn part of the seven-day hotel quarantine for arrivals from overseas into home isolation, to be conducted in a closed-loop arrangement.Lo announced the measures hours after he unveiled plans to allow online bookings for Covid-19 tests for travellers heading to mainland China via the Shenzhen Bay Port and expand the screening quota, apologising for long queues after people earlier swamped the border crossing.To tackle a backlog of nucleic acid tests at the border checkpoint, Lo said a booking system would be able to process 400 people per hour, with a peak of 500. He said the maximum daily capacity for tests would be raised to 2,500 from 1,300 with the company conducting them more than doubling screening machines from 23 to 47.“On Sunday morning, within three hours, about 1,200 people were crossing at the same time, so this created long queues,” Lo said. Shenzhen Bay Port, one of just two land passenger crossings that remain open amid the pandemic, was packed with crowds over the weekend after the Guangdong provincial city boosted the number of quarantine hotel rooms by 700 to 2,000 a day and added more spots for those in need.Earlier in the day, Lo shed some light on planned updates to the “Leave Home Safe” app, saying the aim was to enforce quarantine orders for those at home, adding that currently there was no way to ensure infected residents could not visit high-risk locations such as restaurants, hospitals and care homes.
Lo, who first revealed officials were considering adjusting the “Leave Home Safe” app to require real-name registration a day earlier, stressed authorities were primarily considering a red health code for those who were found to be positive in nucleic acid tests, while real-name registration would make it easier to quarantine those infected.He also said a yellow health code, for example, could be used for overseas arrivals who were quarantining at home, as potentially they could be infected with Covid-19.
“These are people who shouldn’t enter high-risk locations but can go to work point to point,” he said. Macau closes the Grand Lisboa, the first casino shuttered in the Covid-19 pandemicThe mainland uses a three-colour system, which indicates a person’s Covid-19 status via QR codes.
The mainland’s health code app is used to track and contain patients by providing central authorities with user data such as locations, times and personal interactions.The QR codes generated follow a traffic-light system, with the colours affecting where residents can go and how they are treated: a green code declares a resident has not been exposed to any potential cases or risky areas, while yellow and red codes mean they are of higher risk.In December last year, Hong Kong launched a health code system which is built into the “Leave Home Safe” app and compatible with the mainland’s for people who travel across the border.The new health secretary on Monday addressed concerns that the planned updates would allow people’s movements to be traced, saying their main purpose was to identify high-risk individuals and not “track” them down.Some technology experts noted the “Leave Home Safe” app already contained certain personal details such as vaccine records, which included the user’ name and Hong Kong identity card number.While Lo did not give any more details about the planned update, he said the government was now looking at how to define which cases fell under red, yellow or green codes.‘Faster, daily Covid PCR tests could replace Hong Kong hotel quarantine’
9 Jul 2022 He also did not give a timetable for the change, but said authorities hoped to bring them in as soon as possible, with the government already looking at how to make the updates. University of Hong Kong microbiologist Dr Ho Pak-leung told the same programme the government’s goals of minimising infected people’s mobility could theoretically be achieved by suspending their vaccine pass, as it was needed to enter any high-risk venues and operators were required to scan it.
He also said he believed contact tracing should not be the city’s main concern right now. That was because of the large number of infections and a relatively high percentage of cases of unknown origin in the community.

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#hongkong#chine#zerocovid#depistage#passevaccinal#QRCode#hotel#quarantaine#casimporte#testPCR#vaccination#mobilite#frontiere

Hong Kong considers Covid health code system similar to mainland China, city logs 2,992 infections | South China Morning Post
▻https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3184763/hong-kong-mulls-coronavirus-code-system-similar

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Hong Kong considers Covid health code system similar to mainland China, city logs 2,992 infections. Secretary for Health Dr Lo Chung-mau says proposed measure would prevent freedoms of uninfected residents from being affected by Covid-positive people. Lack of protection of individual privacy and sensitive information with code remains concern among public, says Democratic Party spokesman Ramon Yuen
Hong Kong may adjust its Covid-19 app to require real-name registration as mainland China does to ensure residents subject to compulsory testing orders avoid entering high-risk areas, the city’s new health minister has said. But Secretary for Health Dr Lo Chung-mau on Sunday brushed aside concerns that the proposed measure would be unpopular with Hongkongers, arguing it would enhance the freedoms of uninfected residents. Lo said the measure was justified, given the government was seeking to avoid tightening social-distancing measures.“[If] we can’t find infected people or can’t quarantine them on time, we end up ‘quarantining’ people who are negative. We hope we don’t have to do this,” he said.
Health officials on Sunday reported 2,992 new Covid-19 cases, including 219 imported ones, and two additional deaths. The city’s overall coronavirus tally stands at 1,270,800 infections and 9,412 related fatalities.
Commissioner of Customs and Excise Louise Ho Pui-shan was placed under quarantine after one of her colleagues tested preliminary-positive, although her own test came back negative. Meanwhile, the health minister said there were limitations to the city’s “Leave Home Safe” contact-tracing app, which could not prevent coronavirus-positive people from accessing public areas or inform residents they were entering high-risk locations. While he noted that adding a tracking function was “not the first thing to do”, Lo said he believed it was more important for residents to register their real names to use the app.“[The app] is currently limited to telling whether a person is considered to be high-risk, and that they are not supposed to go to higher-risk areas before they do PCR [polymerase chain reaction] testing,” he said.
Lo added that the current compulsory testing order, despite its name, had “no coercive means at all”, making it unfair for residents as high-risk people could still roam around the city without detection.
When asked whether the potential measure could have any similarities to the health code systems used by Macau and the mainland, Lo replied that the Hong Kong government had taken both into consideration as a part of the proposal.The mainland’s health code app is used to track and contain Covid-19 patients by providing central authorities with user data such as locations, times and personal interactions.The QR codes generally follow a traffic-light system, with the colours affecting where residents can go and how they are treated: a green code declares a resident has not been exposed to any potential cases or risky areas, while yellow and red codes mean they are of higher risk.Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the Centre for Health Protection’s communicable disease branch, said she had no comment about Lo’s proposal and that the government would make relevant announcements when it was ready.But she acknowledged the contact-tracing app had limitations and said there were no estimate on the number of infected people who had not reported their positive case to authorities.Although the app had residents’ phone numbers, authorities could still face difficulties in reaching some people for contact-tracing purposes if they did not answer the calls, Chuang said.The centre also had to rely on other government departments to obtain residents’ vaccine pass information whenever there was an outbreak, as it did not have access to such details, she added.She said the centre did not have any information on the number of visitors at particular premises if no infections were reported there.“Macau adopted the mainland-like code system but still suffered an outbreak recently. After all, measures on social distancing and quarantine are still key to controlling the spread, especially in cities that have not reached herd immunity,” he said.Leung added that the proportion of the population in both cities that was immune to the virus due to vaccination or prior infection was still low compared with other places. If Hong Kong implemented the mainland’s app functions, it was crucial to reduce the time needed to synchronise the compulsory testing orders with residents’ phones, otherwise it would be futile if there were delays that lasted for days, he added.Ramon Yuen Hoi-man, the Democratic Party’s healthcare policy spokesman, said the lack of protection of individual privacy and sensitive information with the code system remained a concern among the public.He added that he was worried about the implications of introducing new restrictive measures after the fifth wave of infections had already subsided.“Overseas research has shown that stringent Covid-19 measures have been unfavourable to social harmony and unity. Is this something the new government really hopes to pursue?” he said.Medical and health services lawmaker Dr David Lam Tzit-yuen said privacy issues were not a concern as long as authorities were restricted to tracking a person’s identity and other personal information only if they were deemed to be at risk.“[The code system] is the way to go for better protecting the community. Privacy issues, which could be solved by the right algorithms, should not trump safety of others,” he said.Health minister Lo also said he planned to increase the frequency of PCR tests and require high-risk people, such as employees of nursing homes, to undergo such screening once a week, on top of rapid antigen tests, before increasing it to twice a week or every 48 hours.The new administration led by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has repeatedly stressed the importance of using PCR tests at an earlier stage more effectively, which it said would exclude people who were not infected from tough restrictions.

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Migrants : un test PCR ou la prison, la loi qui révolte les associations - Le Parisien
▻https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/migrants-un-test-pcr-ou-la-prison-la-loi-qui-revolte-les-associations-05-
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Migrants : un test PCR ou la prison, la loi qui révolte les associations
Depuis trois mois, les migrants qui refusent de subir un test PCR dans le cadre de leur mesure d’éloignement du territoire sont traduits devant la justice. « Une atteinte aux libertés fondamentales », pour leurs défenseurs.
Comme au Mesnil-Amelot, le plus grand centre de rétention administrative (CRA) de France, les migrants multiplient les allers-retours avec la prison après avoir refusé de se soumettre à un test PCR. Depuis septembre 2020, Abdel (prénom d’emprunt), ressortissant tunisien de 34 ans, a passé huit mois en détention en France. Avant cela, il n’avait pas de casier judiciaire. Mais cette peine est le résultat de quatre condamnations pour « délit de soustraction à une mesure d’éloignement ».

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#france#sante#CRA#OQTF#politiquemigratoire#testPCR#droit#prison

[relai du fil twitter de PYM / @_P_Y_M]
#ZeroCovid Allemagne remet le couvert et demande que les « responsables » cessent de se défausser par les appels individuels à la vaccin° :
✅ tests PCR gratuits
✅ filtrage, #ventilation des écoles (cc @nousaerons)(pétition ci-dessous)
✅ masque obligatoire
▻https://weact.campact.de/petitions/luftfilter-in-alle-klassezimmer

Et bien sûr les conditions d’un #ZeroCovid :
✅ levée des brevets sur les #vaccins,
✅ solidarité médicale internationaliste
✅ bouclier social (allocations chômage, moratoire sur les loyers)
✅ fin des expulsions de migrant·es
✅ investissement à l’hôpital, hausse des salaires

L’analyse détaillée du moment où nous nous trouvons est ici :
►https://zero-covid.org/positionspapier-welle4
Le taux d’incidence en Allemagne est bien inférieur à ce qu’il est en France, mais l’évolution n’est pas si différente, et une stratégie #ZeroCovid repose d’abord sur le facteur R #4emeVague

#ZeroCovid dit clairement ce qu’on lit finalement peu en France : la politique d’incitation individuelle à la #vaccination consiste à accepter la contamination de la quasi-totalité des non-vaccinés en faisant comme si toutes et tous avaient choisi de ne pas se faire piquer.

#ZeroCovid Tout miser sur la vaccination individuelle et abandonner les non-vaccinés, c’est condamner les #immunodéprimés et les groupes sociaux laissés à l’écart du dispositif très bureaucratique de la #vaccination : Pauvres, étranger·es, dyslexiques, personnes isolées.

Une politique solidaire de #vaccination générale ne dispensera pas de mesures complémentaires #ZeroCovid pour écraser le taux de reproduction et d’incidence : ✅#ventilation & purification de l’air
✅#testpcr gratuits généralisés
✅télétravail là où c’est possible et nécessaire

La #rentree sera un moment crucial.
Les #ecoles et #universités doivent avoir été équipées de #filtres, avoir des stocks de #Tests et des dispositifs de #ventilation ou bien on va à la catastrophe

Le doc de travail #ZeroCovid signale à juste titre que les #vaccinés AUSSI doivent être solidaires, ce qui veut notamment dire : PORTER OBLIGATOIREMENT UN #MASQUE pour ne pas contaminer les personnes tenues à l’écart de la #vaccination
►https://zero-covid.org/positionspapier-welle4

L’éventualité du télétravail, y compris en dernier recours à l’école, impose des investissements publics et un soutien spécifique pour les enfants et les familles (notamment pauvres) que ces dispositifs pénalisent le plus

Le virus ne s’arrête pas aux frontières : cette feuille de route n’a aucun intérêt sans levée des brevets vaccinaux et solidarité internationale.
Enfin #ZeroCovid n’est pas possible si l’on nie la dimension sociale et économique de la crise.
➡️moratoire des loyers, bouclier social, développement des services sanitaires et sociaux, fin de la répression des groupes marginalisés abandonnés à la pandémie (migrant·es, SDF).

• • • source ▻https://twitter.com/_P_Y_M/status/1426508872223760385 & autre relais ▻https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1426508872223760385.html

Coronavirus : La France ajoute 16 pays à sa liste écarlate - Reuters
▻https://fr.reuters.com/article/topNews/idFRKCN2582LD
▻https://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20200812&t=2&i=1529386849&w=1200&r=LYNXNPEG7B1JU

La France a ajouté 16 nouveaux noms à une liste “écarlate” de pays où le nouveau coronavirus circule activement, ce qui obligera les voyageurs français en provenance de ces pays à passer un test PCR avant leur départ ou à leur arrivée en France, a-t-on appris mercredi de source officielle.
Les voyageurs étrangers ne sont pas concernés car ils sont interdits de séjour en France. La mesure entrera en vigueur le 17 août.Voici la liste des pays concernés, obtenue par Reuters : Maldives - Colombie - Monténégro - Bolivie - Kosovo - République dominicaine - Argentine - Costa Rica - Chili (1) - Guinée équatoriale - Kirghizistan - Bosnie-Herzégovine (1) - Moldavie (1) - territoires palestiniens - Arménie (1) - Mexique. (1) indique les pays où le test sera nécessaire avant de quitter le pays.

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#circulation#france#testPCR#sante#voyageaerien#frontiere

SudOnLine - Le Portail de Sud Quotidien SENEGAL | Colonel Amadou Moctar Dièye exige des sanctions
▻https://www.sudonline.sn/colonel-amadou-moctar-dieye-exige-des-sanctions_a_48724.html

Abordant la question relative au coût des tests exigés pour les voyageurs, le Colonel Dièye a justifié ce coût par une absence de la subvention de l’état. « Lorsqu’on a ouvert les frontières aériennes, on s’est rendu compte que certains pays exigent que les gens qui entrent sur leur territoire fassent des tests. Après, on a reçu beaucoup de demandes de sénégalais et d’étrangers vivant parmi nous qui veulent entrer dans tel ou tel autre pays, mais on leur exige un test Pcr », a-t-il renseigné avant d’ajouter. « Devant cette situation, on a convoqué une réunion au niveau du ministère de la santé avec les laboratoires pour échanger sur le coût du test. ils ont donné des prix ; il y a eu des discussions et c’est à l’issue de celles-ci qu’il a été retenu que le coût du test pouvait être fixé à 40 mille francs Cfa en tenant compte du coup des réactifs, des machines, de la main-d’œuvre ».

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#senegal#testpcr#coût#frontiere#sante