4 | Thursday, April 2, 2020 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY CHINA Artistic tribute HK bans 3 more types of venues amid pandemic
The city records 51 cases on Wednesday, 67 percent of which linked to overseas travel
By LI BINGCUN the risk of infection, she stressed. and GU MENGYAN in Hong Kong The regulation was announced just minutes before it took effect, giv The Hong Kong Special Adminis ing little time for practitioners to trative Region government on make adjustments. Chan defended Wednesday ordered three more the decision to issue the new meas types of entertainment venues to ures so quickly. She said this was close for 14 days while reporting 51 common practice when handling new cases of the novel coronavirus, public health problems. with the youngest patient an infant To allow business operators to adapt only 40 days old. to the new regulation, violators will be Starting from 6 pm on Wednes warned during the initial period of day, Hong Kong’s karaoke lounges, implementation, Chan said. mahjong parlors and nightclubs Earlier in the day, all six types of were required to shut down for 14 venues were added to the Preven days to contain the pandemic. tion and Control of Disease Artists in Shanghai work on a giant painting on Wednesday depicting people from all walks of life fighting the coronavirus epidemic. The government also regulated the (Requirements and Directions) The artwork, 18 meters long and 2.2 m high, will be exhibited during a themed art show on April 8 at the China Pavilion, which was city’s beauty parlors, massage parlors (Business and Premises) Regula created during the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. YIN LIQIN / CHINA NEWS SERVICE and clubhouses to strengthen COV tion. Under the regulation, the gov ID19 prevention measures. People ernment can close listed venues or have to wear face masks in these restrict their operations. premises, and get their temperatures The government had earlier checked at entrances. The places were ordered closures of leisure venues Visit: ‘Lucid Virus: US death toll exceeds 4,000 also ordered to offer hand sanitizer. including gyms, cinemas, game cen Offenders of the two regulations ters, party rooms, bathhouses and From page 1 Surging numbers of confirmed face a maximum penalty of six playgrounds, starting from Satur waters’ now cases of COVID19 are putting US months’ imprisonment and a fine of day. The number of confirmed cases We know that healthcare systems and medical HK$50,000 ($6,450). Public gatherings of more than consensus around the world is nearing supplies under strain. In The regulations came after all sev four people were also banned, restau 860,000, with more than 42,000 getting surgical response, US carrier Delta Air en patrons at a karaoke gathering, rants were required to ensure at least deaths. masks, gloves, Lines announced on Monday and an employee at a beauty parlor, 1.5 meters of distance between tables. of all society The death toll in the United States that it would restart regularly were confirmed to be infected with The city recorded 51 new COVID is more than 4,000, higher than the gowns and other scheduled operations from China the virus. 19 cases on Wednesday, including a number of fatalities in China, where protective with cargoonly flights between In addition to five cases confirmed 40dayold boy, who was hospital From page 1 the novel coronavirus pneumonia Shanghai and Detroit, Michigan. earlier, two more people who had ized after getting a fever. The baby is was first reported late last year. The equipment The first flight left Monday visited a karaoke lounge in Tsim Sha in stable condition. Xi said the battle against this total confirmed US cases rose to expeditiously ... is from Detroit. It is scheduled to Tsui on March 24 were also con The infant’s parents have tested pandemic is a practical test of the 189,000, up 25,000 from Monday, return with medical supplies on firmed on Wednesday. The same day, negative for the virus, but a female governing capacity of Party according to Johns Hopkins Univer imperative to Thursday. a practitioner at a beauty parlor in friend of his parents who was later authorities at all levels. Party orga sity. protecting medical “We know that getting surgical Tsim Sha Tsui was found with the confirmed to be infected had nizations at all levels should At a White House news briefing, professionals.” masks, gloves, gowns and other virus. The beautician served a cus hugged the baby on March 20. strengthen Party building, make Deborah Birx, the White House protective equipment expedi tomer who later was also confirmed A total of 34 of the newly con more effort to serve the people and Coronavirus Task Force’s response Shawn Cole, vicepresident tiously to facilities across the to be infected. The beautician wore a firmed patients had recently trav tackle formalism and bureaucracy, coordinator, said as many as 1 mil at Delta Cargo country is imperative to protect face mask but the customer did not. eled outside Hong Kong, including he said. lion to 2.2 million people in the US ing medical professionals and Talking to the press on Wednesday 15 students returning from over During the trip, which started on would succumb to COVID19 if no China do not protect you from cor helping address the COVID19 sit evening, Secretary for Food and Health seas, a flight attendant and a pilot. Sunday, Xi traveled to seaport, mitigating measures whatsoever onavirus — you need a higherlevel uation,” said Shawn Cole, vice Sophia Chan Siuchee said the regula industrial park, rural village and were taken to contain the virus. mask for that — it only prevents president at Delta Cargo. tion has been put into effect as those Contact the writers at wetland park areas in Ningbo, Hu “There’s no magic bullet, there’s you from spreading the disease to Meanwhile, the captain of the places are infection risks. [email protected] zhou and Hangzhou to inspect pre no magic vaccine or therapy. It’s others,” he said. “And right now, we US aircraft carrier Theodore She explained that it might be hard vention and control work on the just behaviors,” Birx said, urging are already practicing social dis Roosevelt has called on Navy for customers to wear face masks all See more novel coronavirus disease as well as people to act according to the tancing.” leadership for stronger measures the time in beauty parlors. Yet the ser the economic and social develop administration’s social distancing But there’s an underlying con to save the lives of his sailors and vice providers must do so to minimize To the point, page 9 ment. recommendation, which has been tradiction to that approach, stop the spread of the corona While inspecting the Chuanshan extended to April 30. Those behav according to Gao Fu, director virus aboard the ship. port area of NingboZhoushan Port iors, Birx added, could change “the general of the Chinese Center for “We are not at war. Sailors do on Sunday, Xi said that the sea course of the viral pandemic”. Disease Control and Prevention. not need to die. If we do not act port’s fast resumption of work has On Tuesday, US President “This virus is transmitted by now, we are failing to properly great significance for the restora Donald Trump also urged people droplets and close contact,” Gao take care of our most trusted tion of the country’s logistics chain in the US to follow strict social dis told Science magazine last week. asset — our sailors,” Captain and the global industrial chain. tancing measures ahead of a “Droplets play a very important Brett Crozier wrote in a memo to He instructed port workers to “tough two weeks” in the pandem role — you’ve got to wear a mask, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet, accord make further efforts to respond to ic fight. Trump said that he could because when you speak, there ing to news agencies. the restrictive measures taken by foresee a scenario in which the are always droplets coming out of The fourpage letter described a other countries on cargo transpor wearing of masks is recommend your mouth. Many people have bleak situation on board the tation and promote the smooth ed, in a reversal of a previous US asymptomatic or presymptomat nuclearpowered carrier as some operation of imports and exports. government directive. ic infections. If they are wearing 70 sailors have tested positive for In his talks with private company For the past month, the US Cen face masks, it can prevent drop the virus. workers at an industrial park on ters for Disease Control and Pre lets that carry the virus from The commander of US Pacific Sunday, Xi said that the country’s vention has repeatedly said that escaping and infecting others,” Fleet declined to say how many small and mediumsize enterprises healthy people don’t need to wear he said. sailors aboard the nuclearpow will definitely overcome the diffi masks. In other words, a person who ered aircraft carrier had tested A mahjong parlor in Mong Kok shuts down on Wednesday, following culties with the support of the Party Craig Coopersmith, interim considers himself uninfected and positive for the coronavirus, but the order from the Hong Kong government to close down karaoke and the government as well as soci director of the Emory Critical is therefore not wearing a mask said that no one had been hospi lounges, mahjong parlors and nightclubs in the city for two weeks to ety. Care Center in Atlanta, Georgia, may already have been infected talized. contain the coronavirus pandemic. PARKER ZHENG / CHINA DAILY On Monday, while visiting the offered explanations for not and is unknowingly spreading village of Yucun in Huzhou’s Anji wearing a mask. the virus to others. May Zhou in Houston, county, where he first put forward “The government doesn’t rec Also, while governments at vari Pan Mengqi in Beijing and the development theory of “lucid ommend it, not because there are ous levels in the US are now agencies contributed to this story. waters and lush mountains are not enough masks, but because the requiring people to stay at home, Fewer disabled people invaluable assets” 15 years ago, Xi masks don’t protect you,” he said in varying levels of noncompliance Contact the writers at said the development theory has an interview last week. “The masks have been seen, especially among williamhennelly@ now become the consensus and that people walk around with in young people. chinadailyusa.com still living in poverty practice of the whole Party and society. At the social mediation center of By LI LEI tional relief projects. Anji county, Xi recognized the Flight: Overseas students’ safety a priority The figures offered by the federa county’s practices and said peo The number of disabled people tion show that onethird of impover ple’s problems should be resolved living in extreme poverty was ished families have members with at an early stage to ensure social From page 1 British schools, making China the ties reduced the volume of interna slashed to around 480,000 by the disabilities. stability. top source of overseas students in tional passenger flights in response end of last year, a significant decline The challenges were magnified by While visiting Hangzhou Xixi She went on to say, “The CPC the UK, according to the Chinese to the pandemic’s spread, with all compared with more than 7 million the ongoing novel coronavirus out National Westland Park on Tuesday, and the Chinese government embassy in London. foreign airlines to maintain only in late 2013, according to the China break, which has prevented workers Xi said that environmental protec closely follow and care for the The embassy has provided Chi one air route to China and operate Disabled Persons’ Federation on from reaching jobs and led to poor tion should be prioritized in the wet health and safety of overseas Chi nese students in Britain with no more than a single flight per Tuesday. sales of farm produce. lands, and the development of nese students. “health kits” containing essential week starting last Sunday. Chinese Last year alone saw 1.2 million dis To mitigate the influence, the fed tourism should not destroy the envi “In accordance with the direc epidemic prevention materials domestic airlines are also asked to abled people lifted out of poverty, the eration said it has launched an oper ronment. tions of the CPC Central Commit and guidelines. The number of retain just one air route to each for federation said in a media release. ation alongside the Ministry of Civil On Tuesday, Xi also visited tee, the Foreign Ministry COVID19 cases in the UK reached eign destination and fly the route The developments came as China Affairs and the State Council Lead Hangzhou City Brain Operation instructed over 280 Chinese more than 25,000 on Wednesday. only once a week. works to end absolute poverty ing Group Office of Poverty Allevia Command Center, where he embassies and consulates over China still faces the risk of a Noting that some overseas Chi before the end of the year. tion and Development to promote learned how the “city brain” is used seas to maintain close contact rebound of novel coronavirus nese students face various diffi China’s rural poor, which stood at the employment of disabled people to promote the modernization of with overseas Chinese students, pneumonia at home, with the culties and need to return home, just under 99 million in late 2012, and to help them with the sales of city governance systems and get to know their requests and dif spread of the pandemic overseas the Civil Aviation Administration was slashed to 5.51 million as of last farm produce. capacity. In 2016, the Hangzhou ficulties, and help them solve prac posing new challenges. Experts in said that the major air transporta year. Zhou Changkui, directorgeneral government announced its “city tical problems.” disease control, based on World tion guarantee mechanism will be But the poverty relief effort of the federation, said at a telecon brain” plan, which uses more data While the UK has more than Health Organization recommen activated to arrange extra flights remains arduous as nearly half ference involving the three depart to build an intelligent city. The 220,000 Chinese students being dations, suggested reducing cross and charter flights to cities with the remaining poor are seniors or ments on Tuesday that efforts will “city brain” system covers 11 areas, educated at 154 universities, border movement as much as viable destinations where a large people with diseases or disabili be made to prevent those who have including police, traffic, tourism around 15,000 Chinese teenagers possible. number of people in need are con ties, making it hard for them to escaped poverty from sliding back and health. are studying at more than 1,000 Chinese civil aviation authori centrated. escape poverty through conven due to the outbreak.