It is also necessary to accept the mainland’s “health code” Lin Zheng pointed out that he is studying the expansion of compulsory travel with peace of mind
[EpochTimesNovember092021](Epoch Times reporter Ye Zeyu Hong Kong Comprehensive Report) Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuee-e said earlier that negotiations with the mainland for customs clearance are progressing well, and they hope to resume large-scale customs clearance in February 2022. “Economic Daily” published an interview with Lam Cheng on the 8th. She said that the conditions for exemption from quarantine and customs clearance are believed to include uploading “safe travel” records so that the mainland authorities can know the whereabouts of the persons concerned for a period of time. code”. She foretold that the mandatory use of “travel with peace of mind” will be expanded, saying that small-scale use will not achieve the purpose of customs clearance.
Lin Zheng said that exemption from quarantine and customs clearance on the mainland must be conditional. It is believed that it will include having received two doses of vaccine, holding a certificate of negative nucleic acid test within 48 or 72 hours, and uploading a record of “Travel with peace of mind” to let the authorities know the person. A period of whereabouts, and after passing the customs, he accepted the “health code” of the mainland system. She said that people who pass customs may need a mainland mobile phone so that the authorities can monitor their whereabouts.
Those who pass customs may need a mainland mobile phone
Let the authorities monitor its whereabouts
Lin Cheng also admitted that he is studying the expansion of mandatory use of “safe travel” in more places, saying that if it is only used on a small scale in Hong Kong, the purpose of customs clearance will not be achieved. She also called this “for the greater public interest” and compared land development. “Public health matters, just like land development, to a certain extent, the minority obeys the majority.”
Lam Cheng said that there will be quotas at the beginning of customs clearance, and “priority” will be set for different needs. Priority will be given to visiting the elderly or those with funeral and business needs. However, due to the large number of cross-border school children, it is estimated that it will be difficult to keep them in the early stage of customs clearance. Go to school normally every day.
In terms of customs clearance, Lam Cheng said that there are three points, which are gradual and orderly, conditional and priority. I believe that the initial stage of customs clearance is limited to Guangdong Province. “In the early stage of customs clearance, Guangdong Province must go first, and you will not be allowed to fly to Beijing to be exempted from quarantine at the beginning.” In addition, not all ports will be opened together. It is estimated that the Shenzhen Land Port or the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge may be the first batch of ports to open.
Recently, a number of mainland human rights activists discovered that their “health code” turned red for no reason, or that the program was abnormal and prevented them from traveling to Beijing, Shanghai and other places. They questioned that the “health code” has become a stability maintenance tool that restricts the travel of dissidents.
709 human rights lawyer Xie Yang said on Twitter on November 6 that he was in Changsha who planned to go to Shanghai to visit the mother of reporter Zhang Zhan who was sentenced to imprisonment for exposing the Wuhan epidemic, but he could not make the trip because the “health code” suddenly turned red. . He emphasized that he had never left Changsha in the past period of time, and slammed “All of this is persecution!” The next day he re-posted an article saying that his “health code” had turned back to green, and questioned that the “health code” “acted as a restriction on the travel of dissidents.” tool”.
Human rights lawyer Wang Yu and her husband Bao Longjun also posted separately on Twitter that they were unable to return to Beijing because the “Beijing Health Code” suddenly became unusable. ◇
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