Yuan Guoyong, an expert consultant of the Hong Kong Government and a lecture professor at the Department of Microbiology of the University of Hong Kong, believes that this stage is not suitable to lift the mask order at this stage. It should wait until around March and April, and the daily low temperature will rise to more than 20 degrees.

Comprehensive Ming Pao and Sing Tao Daily reported that Yuan Guoyong said in an interview with Ming Pao that if Hong Kong chose to be fully opened from March to April this year, including lift the mask order, allowing crown disease and influenza virus to spread in summer in summerYou can continuously consolidate the community immune barrier. In the next winter, you will not face too serious epidemic outbreaks, which can ensure that the medical system is free from collapse again.

Yuan Guoyong said on Thursday (January 26) in the Shangtai program that lifting the mask may cause a new wave of epidemics. It is best to do it during the spring and summer until this period.It can establish a hybrid immunity of the virus, reduce the severity rate, and the public will also inoculate new crown vaccines.

In addition, Yuan Guoyong believes that the government should review after this epidemic, and prepare for the next time the global epidemic is popular.