A cross-border truck driver is being investigated by police for violating COVID-19 protocols in Shenzhen, according to a press conference held by the city government’s information office yesterday morning.
The driver was found to have failed to return to the designated hotel for rest as required and instead stayed without authorization in Shangsha East Village in Shatou Subdistrict, Futian District. No other details were released.
The district has put the driver under investigation after immediately sending the driver to a designated quarantine hotel.
Lin Hancheng, the spokesperson of Shenzhen’s COVID-19 prevention and control headquarters, urged that cross-border truck drivers strictly abide by relevant epidemic prevention and control rules.
According to Lin, the city will further strengthen law enforcement and seriously deal with any violations.
Lin said that the municipal health commission has dispatched 121 medical workers and experts from 16 hospitals across the city to support the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, the city’s designated COVID treatment facility, in treatment of COVID patients.
Chen Sheng, director of pulmonary disease department at Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, said at the conference that the use of both traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine in COVID patient treatment is a highlight of the city’s anti-epidemic efforts.
“Not a mild case has turned into a severe case with a combined therapy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM),” said Chen, adding that traditional TCM therapies have also been used to treat some COVID positive patients who have turned negative and still experience some clinical symptoms.
Song Yan, deputy head of the city’s housing and construction bureau, said that 1,769 of the city’s 2,260 construction sites had resumed work as of Sunday.
All the construction sites have implemented closed-off management, and negative nucleic acid test results issued within 48 hours or proof of a nucleic acid test taken within 24 hours are required to enter the sites, according to Song.