In fact, the official foreign sector sold more UST's ("certificates of confiscation") in the last 8 weeks than in the previous 8 years. The world is extremely keen to dump US Debt. The Fed with its printing press is buying it all. That is why the US dollar is crashing too. The end game of the US is near, and protests may send her to the grave.

MoneyMaker168 Dump US treasury. Dump them all. Let see who will suffer more.

I think That will spell the end of USD as reserve currency and the end of the money printing machine. No US government will make this decision

MY greatgrands a Londoner who left the UK to come to HK in 1965 and have been there largely ever since I found the news of the Anti Chinese racism disturbing. I had been going to Chinese school in hk since the age of 9, with my brothers. My family were all what you would call half Euros/Whities. I had Chinese friends when I went to college and never experienced any anti Chinese feeling. Despite the facts of the Korea War.
In malaysia I married a Chinese and had two children. On my returns to UK over the years I have noticed no racism towards my family, in laws and Chinese friends. That these disgusting things are happening now I can only put down to the change in the attitudes of the population which came with the massive immigration to UK, under the Blair and other governments, of people largely from the Sub Continent of India and the Middle East. These people often from cultures very different from the indigenous British did I understand receive some unwelcome from some of the population. But I venture to say these were not of a shocking nature. And all I can say is the events describe in the Article about David and poor girl from Singapore are a relatively new phenomenon and we must all monitor the situation and ensure that there are laws and Police to enforce them.
A look at the USA and their racial problems these last few days must send shudders down everyone's spine.

Mmmm with an Indian heritage Chancellor and the Mayor of the Capital City a Muslim, all democratically voted in by the people, I can see where you get that view.
I do understand from watching the NPC Fringe Festival the rainbow of faces that were present, places China at the pinnacle of diversity for the rest of the world to follow, so forgive my push back.

RevenueQueeN,And i would add, in six months time as the effects of the business shut downs kick in and people are short of cash, that is when you going to see peak racism.

Why would anyone want to immigrate to the UK? The old racist colonial attitude of some of these Brits is enough to turn anyone of Asian descent off completely. But if you really want to wave your British flag then pack your bags and leave but don't ever come back. When you encounter an racist attack then just say to the them I am on your side!

I really do wish post above would not use the name "British" or "Britain" when taking about something negative. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have devolved governments and differing characteristics. To a certain extent they are separate countries. United kingdoms consist of four countries, Britain is not London and what happens in London is not an accurate measure of Britain. For instance, in Scotland the ruling party, SNP, continually invites immigrants to consider moving here. A quieter more relaxed population but certainly contaminated by "some" racism although it is quickly and determinedly dealt with by the majority of Scots. Many Chinese students and workers in U.K population. They go about their work and life unhampered by ignorant uneducated idiots

Li Yang, a fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who had advised the central bank, said in an online forum in May that China must accelerate the internationalisation of the yuan and use its economic power to promote the currency abroad in the face of headwinds in the financial sector.
While the dollar remains the anchor currency in the global monetary system, its dominance is gradually weakening.
At the end of 2019, allocation of global reserves in the US dollar had slipped to 60.8 per cent, from 66 per cent in 2015. Dollar assets accounted for 58 per cent in China’s foreign exchange reserves at the end of 2014, down from 79 per cent in 2005, according to the latest data released by the Chinese State Administration of Foreign Exchange.
Cao Yuanzheng, a researcher at Bank of China International, said any US efforts to isolate China from the dollar payment system could accelerate the formation of a new international monetary order to replace the one that came into existence after World War II.
“We’ll see what new monetary system will emerge in the next 20 to 30 years,” Cao said.

The US Federal Reserve has jumped to buy Treasury bonds, mortgage-backed securities and even corporate credit, to support the domestic economy. It has also opened new types of lending to foreign central banks to help ease a shortage of US dollars in international financial markets, including Hong Kong.
But Huang said these measures were designed for “short-sighted American politics and the election cycle” and will reach a tipping point that undermines the dollar when the federal government debt amounts to 150 per cent of its gross domestic product.
“If it goes to 150 per cent, it will definitely mean an economic implosion … the US dollar would lose its credit standing and status,” Huang said.
Chinese researchers are calling for an acceleration of efforts to cut the nation’s reliance on the US dollar.

China’s unhappiness about the US dollar is not new. China’s former premier Wen Jiabao said in March 2009 that he was “a bit worried” about the safety of the nation’s large US Treasuries holdings after the US Federal Reserve started its unconventional quantitative easing programme – pumping money directly into the financial system by buying up US Treasury and mortgage-backed securities – to combat the global financial crisis.
The central bank’s decision this year to resume quantitative easing in a bid to help the US economy survive the coronavirus outbreak has again raised eyebrows in China.
Huang Qifan, the former mayor of the large Chinese municipality of Chongqing, said in May that the US “should not incessantly issue debt nor have limitless quantitative easing” because of the risk it posed to the value of dollar.
US national debt has surged above US$25 trillion from US$22 trillion at the end of December.

a professor at Hong Kong University of Science, said cutting China from the dollar payment system would backfire, as Washington needs Beijing to keep buying its rapidly growing national debt.
China holds US$1.1 trillion worth of US Treasuries securities, or about 4.4 per cent of total national debt, according to the latest US Treasury data.
If the US cuts China from the global dollar payments system, Beijing would speed up its internationalisation of the yuan and accelerate its push to create a global currency system that does not rely on the American currency.
“The US can bully Iran and Venezuela that do not have political and financial power. But the size of China and its currency are too big, so the US does not dare to take such extreme measures,” Lui said.

In addition, more than 70 per cent of the yuan’s use in international payments takes place in Hong Kong, which has a separate currency and financial system from the mainland.
Because the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the US dollar and is freely convertible to other currencies, it serves as a means for China to access global capital.
Concerns are growing that the US may move to weaken or even break these links, depriving China of access to global funding while undermining Hong Kong’s status as an international financial centre and readily hurting the US dollar in the process.
The US has imposed financial sanctions upon a number of Chinese companies and banks before. Zhuhai Zhenhua, a state-owned oil company, was punished for breaking US sanctions against Iran, while Bank of Kunlun has also been cut off from the US payment system. But these sanctions are often targeted without broader implications.

On the other hand, Beijing has been trying hard over the last decade to undermine the US dollar’s power. China’s former central bank governor proposed in 2009 that a new super sovereign currency should be created to replace the dollar.
China has encouraged the use of yuan in trade settlements, it has set up a market in Shanghai to trade yuan-denominated crude oil futures contracts, and it has developed a cross-border yuan payment system, signed dozens of bilateral yuan currency swap deals and even created its own multilateral bank.
These efforts, however, have achieved only limited success as the US dollar remains the first choice for traders, investors and central bankers around the world.
The yuan’s international use is limited compared to the dollar – the latest figure from the Swift system showed that the yuan accounts for just 1.66 per cent of international payment transactions versus the 43 per cent of the US dollar.

The stakes could not be higher as it could severely alter the world’s economic landscape for years to come.
Like virtually every other country in the world, China relies on the US dollar as a payment method for most international trade, financing and investment activities, with financial institutions in Hong Kong often playing a gateway role.
China’s use of the US dollar has helped America to maintain its currency’s “exorbitant privilege” – a phase used by former French finance minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in 1965 – in the international monetary system.
Beijing’s view of the US dollar is complicated. On the one hand, China’s government sits on the world’s largest stockpile of foreign reserves, over half of which is in dollar-denominated assets. Beijing also regards the US dollar as a kind of strategic asset, limiting the ability of Chinese citizens to exchange the yuan for the dollar to US$50,000 per year and keeping a wary eye on companies transferring dollars out of the country.

The official, who declined to be identified, said this scenario was still regarded in the Chinese capital as a “low probability event” and a last resort. “Such an act would be closer to a hot war than a Cold War,” the source said.

A new and troubling question is suddenly looming for Beijing: will the Trump administration abuse the power of the US dollar to hurt China following Beijing’s plan to impose a new national security law in Hong Kong?
While the probability remains very low that China will be treated like Russia or Iran, and US President Donald Trump has not mentioned sanctions against Hong Kong or Chinese financial institutions, the risk of a financial war – including being cut off from the US dollar system – is no longer “unthinkable” for China.
If Washington were to sever China’s corporate and financial system from the US dollar payments system, which is underpinned by infrastructure such as the Swift international payments messaging system and the Clearing House Interbank Payments System (Chips), it could start a financial tsunami that would lead global finance into unchartered territory, officials and analysts said.
“It’s clearly a nuclear option for the US,” said a Chinese official who has been briefed on internal discussions about Beijing’s response to the possible US reaction to the national security law in Hong Kong. “It would hurt China, but it would probably hurt the US more.”

Hong Kong security law: China weighs risk US will go for ‘nuclear option’ and cut Beijing from the dollar payment system
Risks of US financial sanctions emerge for China after National People’s Congress approves national security law for Hong Kong
Beijing wonders whether Washington will cut it off from US dollar payment system and hasten the demise of dollar hegemony in the process

March 12 A teenager spits in the face of a Chinese takeaway owner in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, shouting: “Do you have coronavirus? Do you have coronavirus?” The owner’s daughter, Sharon So, says: “We are worried for my father’s health. What if that boy had the virus? He spat in my dad’s face – my dad could easily be infected.”
March 20 Four Chinese people in their 20s wearing face masks are attacked in Southampton, in southern England, by youths aged 11 to 13 in what police described as a racially aggravated attack linked to the coronavirus outbreak.
March/April Students around Britain report being attacked and abused for wearing face masks. A 24-year-old Chinese postgraduate student in Manchester describes being targeted by a passing car while shopping with a friend: “They rolled down the window and sneezed at us and then laughed.” Some students have stopped going out because of the threat of abuse. “I feel like an outsider,” one says. “We are not welcomed.”

February 9 A 28-year-old Chinese woman in Birmingham is accused of having coronavirus, called “a dirty c***” and told to “take your f***ing coronavirus back to China”. An Indian friend of the woman, who steps in to protect her, is punched unconscious and hospitalised.
In another incident in the city, a Chinese student is reportedly punched in the face for wearing a face mask and suffers a dislocated jaw. A spokeswoman for the Birmingham Chinese Society says: “There has always been abuse. The virus has given some individuals a reason for that abuse.”
February 24 Singaporean student Jonathan Mok, 23, is left bleeding and bruised after being beaten up in Oxford Street, London, by a gang of four teenagers who shout: “We don’t want your corona­virus in our country.” Two boys aged 15 and 16 are later arrested for racially aggravated assault. Mok says: “I just think it’s a pity to have such experiences taint the image of this beautiful city with so many nice people.”
March 5 A PhD student from China studying at Scotland’s Glasgow University has his clothes torn by a gang of three attackers, who shout “coronavirus” at him. Politician Sandra White says: “To attack an innocent person in the street for no other reason than sheer ignorance is utterly appalling.”

This rising tide of race attacks and Britain’s inability to contain it could have an impact on the number of Chinese and East Asian students who sign up for universities in the country. More than 120,000 attended in the last academic year – a 30,000 increase on 2014-15 – but it is unclear how many will return in the autumn.
For now, at least, it appears racism is not their biggest worry, according to Tan, who has spoken to friends with children at British universities. “The way they see it is that racism is everywhere and their biggest concern is whether the UK health care system can sort itself out and people can learn to wear masks,” she says.
Whether the Covid-19 racism coursing through Britain outlives the pandemic or dies away with it remains to be seen. Whatever happens, walking away is not an option for Tse and many others for whom Britain has been home for decades.
“If I were to leave now and go back to Hong Kong, it would feel like running away from a problem that needs to be resolved,” he says.
Instead, when he found himself confronted by bigotry in Soho, he made sure that – unlike during his days behind the counter in his parents’ takeaway – he wasn’t going to let a racist have the last word. “When she had finished yelling at me, I said, ‘F*** your f***ing racism and your f***ing paranoia,’” he says. “She seemed quite shocked that a Chinese person was assertive enough to answer her in the same way she had spoken to me.”
A chronology of racism – ‘We are not welcomed’
January 30 A female Chinese student in Sheffield, where there are 8,000 Chinese students, is shoved and abused in the street for wearing a face mask. Sarah Ng, from the Sheffield Chinese Commu­nity Centre, says the student was following advice from the media in mainland China and Hong Kong to wear a mask but said the sight of them added to a sense of “panic” in the population.
“We need to put out a balanced message of under­stand­ing about why Chinese students are wearing masks,” she suggests.
February 3 Two Asian students aged 16 and 17 are pelted with eggs in Market Harborough, Leicester­shire. University of Leicester stu­dents also report being subjected to racist attacks for wearing masks.
February 8 Financial worker Pawat Silawattakun, 24, from Thailand, is assaulted and robbed as he gets off a bus in Fulham Road, London, by two teenagers who punch him, breaking his nose, and run away with jeers of “corona­virus”. “It’s made me very wary. It isn’t just a robbery. There’s also knowing I’ve been targeted because of my ethnicity,” he says.

Since the outbreak began, Tan has not taken her children on public transport. Fortunately, her children were at home when she was confronted by three girls who verbally abused her as she walked through a London Underground station with an elderly relative in February. “They started swearing about the coronavirus and using the worst expletives you can imagine,” she says. “I told them they were being ignorant and that the virus doesn’t discriminate.”
Minutes later, as she spoke on her phone to the British Transport Police to report the incident outside the station, Tan was subjected to a second assault. “A well-dressed couple came towards me and the man walked right up to me and coughed in my face,” she says.
Tan says it is important to confront Sinophobia early to stop it spreading. “I know the Chinese com­mu­nity are having it really bad now but I look to other communities in the country – my Muslim friends or my black friends, who have a whole history of racism against them – and I think this is the poem And then they came for me.
“What we are doing with CARG is firefighting an immediate issue in our own city, because we are British citizens and this is our home, and I can’t bear to see my countrymen descend into this sort of discrimination.”

Having moved to Britain from Hong Kong at the age of 10, to attend boarding school, Leong says the atmosphere in London is markedly different now. “London is a very diverse, metropolitan city, people know about political correctness, but the agenda changed when Brexit came and when Trump came. Now, people are thinking, ‘You look Chinese, you look East Asian, you must have Covid-19.’ That is absolutely wrong and we have to stamp this out.”
An early focus of CARG’s campaign were reports in the British press that they say racialised Covid-19 and created “a climate of fear, anger and hatred” towards British Chinese and East and Southeast Asian communities. References to the pandemic as “the Chinese virus” and attempts by the government to deflect criticism of its failure to prepare for the coronavirus’ arrival have triggered racist attacks and attitudes, the group claims.
British-born Chinese Pek-san Tan, who works as head of press at the London Chinatown Chinese Associ­ation and whose parents-in-law are from Hong Kong, is concerned about the potential long-term impact of “casual racism” on her children, aged five and three.
Before schools closed and the lockdown began, young children were playing games of coronavirus “it” in some primary school playgrounds and singling out Asian pupils, she says. “I had seen what was happening and I didn’t think young impressionable minds should be subjected to that because you don’t know what psychological effect it will have on them in the future.”

The founder of Dumplings’ Legend restaurant, in London’s Chinatown, a favourite among celebrities and royalty, believes his car was targeted by someone who knew he was Chinese. He responded by writing the word “Why?” on each damaged tyre and posting a message on the car asking: “How is my NHS (National Health Service) doctor wife going to get to work today?”
“We have to stop this,” Leong says. “There must be no more of this prejudice. People have to speak with a strong voice against race crime, not just put their heads down and ignore it.”
He noticed attitudes to Asians in London had begun to change when he saw a woman stepping to one side and “staring me out” in a shop before the lockdown began. “It was like a comic scene at first,” he says. “Another time, a couple were walking their dog and saw me approach and literally dragged their dog aside to get it away from me – and this was before social distancing was introduced.”
Soon after, Leong’s 12-year-old daughter was shouted at by a woman in their local supermarket and Leong “went back to the shopkeeper who had seen it happen and I said it was really wrong and that you need to stand up to people who do these things”.

“They are playing the racecard and scapegoating. They have racialised a disease and they are promoting Sino­phobic propaganda, echoing what the Nazis did in Germany against the Jews. People are angry. It’s like the 1930s in the sense that the economy is going to tank and people are listening more to extremist voices. Propa­ganda works, especially when people are hurting.”
At the root of the problem, Tse believes, is the fact that while Asian countries have handled the coronavirus effec­tively, Britain’s approach has been marred by “complacency, negligence and incompetence”. He says, “It shows the resi­dual colonialism, arrogance and the notion they knew better because they were more advanced and more civil­ised.
“They were looking down their noses and treating it as a foreign disease that could not possibly affect plucky little Britain. We had nine weeks to prepare and throughout that time I was aware of the severity of the outbreak because all my family and friends in Hong Kong were WhatsApping me on a daily basis. But the government here was just twiddling its thumbs.”
In April, arts patron and CARG founding member Geoff Leong had all four tyres on his Mercedes slashed outside the house he shares with his wife, Marie-Claire, and their three children in north London.

Now a group of prominent Chinese, East Asians and Hongkongers living in Britain have banded together to fight the rising tide of attacks and discrimination. CARG – the Covid-19 Anti-Racism Group – has launched a petition calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to make a clear declaration that the British government “deplores racism and hate crimes arising from Covid-19 against British East Asian people and international students in our country”.
The group also issued a statement calling on the media, public figures and political leaders to emphasise “solidarity, courage and mutual support across all communities rather than feed hostility, division and racism”.
The depth of concern among Chinese and East Asian communities in Britain can be seen in the messages posted by people signing up to CARG. “I’m living in fear for my children and me because of the rising hate crimes,” wrote one. “I’m very worried about my future as a British Chinese living in the UK,” wrote another.
“We’ve had Brexit already so there’s a lot of racist anti-immigrant thinking in this country and now it’s being stoked further,” says Tse, a founding member of CARG. “It is a very dangerous time we are living in. Some Hong Kong students might want to think twice about coming here. I wouldn’t want Hongkongers and mainland Chinese to put their lives at risk. It’s only a matter of time before this Brexit ‘Britain First’ toxicity affects one of us very badly.

A survey of more than 400 people of these ethnicities living in Britain found more than a third had experienced racism in public places since the beginning of the outbreak. Researchers warn incidents are likely to increase as the lockdown is lifted.
In a matter of weeks, a country mostly seen as diverse, tolerant and generally welcoming has become a toxic mixture of post-Brexit racism and Sinophobia, a sometimes menacing place for a resident population of more than 430,000 Chinese people, as well as more than 120,000 Chinese students at British universities.
The threat was most vividly illustrated in early March by a vicious attack on Singaporean student Jonathan Mok, who was left with a black eye, a broken bone below his eye and a swollen face after being attacked by a two teenagers in Oxford Street, just a few minutes’ walk from where Tse would later be verbally abused. Mok told police that as the teenagers attacked him, one shouted, “I don’t want your coronavirus in my country.”

The unprovoked hostility in Soho “brought out the anger in me because you scratch the surface, and suddenly you’re back to a much darker period of British cultural history, when people were overtly racist”, he says. “I think people here are still racist towards Chinese and East Asians, although there was a grudging respect because of the way China has advanced and become an economic superpower. All that seems to have changed with Covid-19.”
Tse’s experience is far from unique. In the first three months of 2020, police say there have been at least 267 recorded hate crimes against Chinese, East Asian and Southeast Asian people in Britain, compared with 375 in the whole of 2019. Thousands more are believed to have gone unreported.

“This happened throughout my childhood because me and my siblings all worked in my parents’ takeaway when we were old enough. My parents were somewhat shielded because they were working in the kitchen, so we bore the brunt of it.
“I remember thinking, ‘Why the hell did we ever leave Hong Kong?’ I grew up on Cheung Chau, part of a warm, loving, interconnected large community of family and friends. I had an idyllic childhood and then I arrived in this country that was cold, grey and unwelcoming.”
Tse came to believe Britain had grown more civilised and tolerant. He was the founding artistic director of the Yellow Earth Theatre, which showcases East Asian talent, and has directed productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Barbican.

David Tse Ka-shing was taking his daily exercise, jogging through Soho in the heart of London, in the early days of Britain’s coronavirus lockdown in March, when he found himself at the receiving end of a racist outburst that dragged him back to the darkest times of his childhood.
The Hong Kong-born actor and director had just passed a white, female pedestrian in her early 30s at a safe distance when she barked at him to “F*** off back to China.” When Tse turned back in dismay and replied, “I’m British. How dare you?”, she yelled, “Take your f***ing virus home with you.”
For Tse, 55, who moved to England with his family at the age of six, the foul-mouthed outburst was a shocking wake-up call to a tide of racism unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic in his adopted country.
“The UK was incredibly racist when I grew up here in the 70s and 80s,” he recalls of his boyhood in the West Midlands town of Leominster. “We lived in a small market town and my parents ran a fish-and-chip shop and Chinese takeaway. Every Friday and Saturday night we used to get racist behaviour from drunken customers. They would come in to be served and at the same time abuse us.

Hong Kong recorded two new Covid-19 cases on Friday, both imported cases, taking the tally to 1,065.
The city on average recorded fewer than 100 arrivals a day in the first four months of this year compared with the roughly 200,000 during normal times. Global travel has ground to a halt, with more than 65 airlines cutting about 95 per cent of flights in April and May.
Cheng said it would take a longer time for Hong Kong tourism to recover as many long-haul flights were not expected to resume until the fourth quarter of this year.

Asked whether Beijing’s sudden proposal to enact a national security law in Hong Kong would worsen social unrest that began last year, Cheng said: “Overseas visitors’ major concern is still about the development and containment of the coronavirus pandemic. We need to deal with this first.”
A spokeswoman for the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau said it was preparing to relaunch Hong Kong’s tourism sector after assessing the advice from health authorities, and working out quarantine, transportation and immigration arrangements with overseas markets.

“If the promotions go well, we will extend it to overseas travellers in the next stage,” he said, adding the campaign could cost about HK$40 million (US$5.15 million).

As part of a near-term strategy to revive tourism, Cheng said the board would introduce 11,000 enticements covering food, shopping, hotels and attractions, among others, from the middle of June in a campaign called “Hello Hong Kong”.

Nations such as Australia and New Zealand are already discussing forming a travel bubble. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have struck an arrangement allowing residents to travel freely without undergoing quarantine.

Hong Kong should form “travel bubbles” with regional neighbours that have similar success in containing the coronavirus pandemic as a way to bring back visitors who stopped travelling due to the health crisis, the city’s tourism promotion body says.
Hong Kong Tourism Board chief executive Dane Cheng Ting-yat on Friday called on the government to pursue the creation of such links with short-haul markets such as Macau, South Korea, Thailand and even mainland China.
With arrivals falling nearly 100 per cent to 4,100 in April against the same period last year, the scheme could be a way to bring back travellers. “It is the right time to look at it,” Cheng said.

Hong Kong should form ‘travel bubbles’ with neighbours that have pandemic under control, tourism board chief says
Creating links with nations such as South Korea, Thailand and even mainland China could bring visitors back to city, according to Dane Cheng
Australia and New Zealand are already discussing such an arrangement, while Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have opened their borders to one another

Francis Fong Po-kiu, honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation, said old and outdated IT systems were being used across many government departments.
“Many of them resisted reforms because of the inconvenience in transferring an archive of decades-old data into a new one, an unwillingness to adapt to new technology or simply the attitude of ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’,” he said.
“But the fact is, many of the government IT systems are broken and need an overhaul.”
The Department of Health said it had developed an electronic platform with the Hospital Authority in late January for “real time reporting and monitoring” of suspected Covid-19 cases, including laboratory results.

Hong Kong Doctors Union president Dr Henry Yeung Chiu-fat declared the public health sector’s IT system “past its use-by date”.
“The government’s IT system and mode of operation have been unfit for a long time. This epidemic has just exposed their weaknesses and the need for urgent reform,” said Yeung, a paediatrician in private practice.
He said many private practitioners hesitated to use the health department’s free Covid-19 testing scheme for their patients because of the inconvenience in obtaining test reports that were faxed over.
“Not all private doctors still have a fax machine in their clinics,” Yeung said.
Until recently, the department was sending faxes to some clinics indirectly through private laboratories, which in turn charged the doctors an administrative fee.
“The reason, I suspect, is that the government didn’t have our fax numbers in its database and was concerned about sending sensitive patient information to the wrong people,” he said.

A senior medical officer who looked after Covid-19 patients in a public hospital recalled that at the height of the epidemic, there were numerous calls daily from staff of the Centre for Health Protection, quarantine centres and the Hospital Authority, all asking if his hospital has beds available and can accept new patients.
He blamed the poor data exchange between the various health bodies on obsolete systems and bureaucratic attitudes that went back decades.
For example, he said, the health department’s chest clinics could not retrieve tuberculosis patients’ medical history digitally even with the patients’ consent. “Everything has to be faxed or hand-delivered,” he added.
The issue was not privacy concerns, he said, as public hospitals already had digital data-sharing arrangements with some private hospitals, provided patients consented.

Dr Arisina Ma Chung-yee, president of the Hong Kong Public Doctors’ Association, pointed to the lack of an effective IT interface and ongoing challenges in sharing data efficiently between the Department of Health, which is responsible for contact tracing and confirming Covid-19 infections, and the Hospital Authority, which treats the patients in public hospitals.
“When a Covid-19 patient arrives at our door, we need to go into the part of the Department of Health’s system that we can access, and double-check the patient’s test report,” she said. “It can take half a day on a weekday, or a whole weekend if it is a Friday, before the information is recorded there.”
That could result in admission delays, as a patient must be kept in a separate room and could not be moved to an isolation ward with confirmed Covid-19 patients to avoid potential cross infections, Ma said.
Even discharging a recovered patient can be delayed, as all those who test negative twice for Covid-19 still need the Department of Health’s approval before being allowed to leave hospital.
Ma said: “We need to fax them the test reports, as their IT system is not compatible with ours and they cannot access the information online.”

They worry that these hitches will also hinder the city’s ability to guard against a potential new wave of infections.
To safely reopen the border for businessmen, students and families living on both sides, Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan Siu-chee said on May 2 that the government was exploring a mutually-recognised health system with Guangdong and Macau.
That involves using an electronic certificate to indicate the risk level of individuals based on their state of health, contact with Covid-19 patients and travel history.
The plan could allow such commuters to skip 14-day mandatory quarantine when they cross the border. However, a government source familiar with the situation said the plan had been delayed by Hong Kong’s outdated technology.
“Macau and Zhuhai have set up a similar system that is up and running, but there are concerns about privacy and IT security if we join them and pool our data,” the source said, adding that Hong Kong had been slow to implement a citywide digital system to store health information.

Coronavirus: doctors blame Hong Kong’s outdated IT systems for slowing Covid-19 response, delaying reopening of mainland border
‘Electronic health certificate’ plan for cross-border commuters hit by poor storage, sharing of data
Government’s slow processes, use of faxes, have caused delays for Covid-19 patients, doctors say
Archaic IT systems and bureaucracy have hindered Hong Kong’s anti-pandemic drive and are slowing efforts to reopen its border with mainland China, public health insiders say.
The city has turned a corner in the crisis, with only a handful of local infections recorded in recent weeks. It has confirmed a total of 1,082 cases and four deaths.
But frontline doctors in the public and private sectors told the Post there have been problems developing an electronic health certificate for cross-border travellers and in sharing data across departments.

So if its not those tribe doings? who else lagi?

First, intimidation by the employer. When the workers protest, the police swoop down on them. A classic pattern of oppression. Only PSM has the heart to stand up for the workers.

pandai pandai la friend, who else if not them?

So If everyday got conversion means its someone else! Not the boss or whoever you mention its faked!

kenie , your post Boss everyday converts means you are lying! Conversion needs 8 days,cannot be everyday. so you better bury you and your whole family together!

By the way kenie you are not welcome here, go dig a big hole and bury yourself or maybe with your whole family together!

QueenElizebeth IV! That's their demand: a normal life.
Infact you are a pandem..only you don't know it.

XxXTripleXxX, I think so as well. The US has been shooting in the dark since the beginning, including the usage of Chlorox.