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| Tam was told Friday not to come to Beijing next week |
To illustrate how paranoid Beijing is about Covid-19 coming into the Chinese capital, Hong Kong's only delegate to the National People's Congress Standing Committee Tam Yiu-chung has been strongly advised not to come following one untraceable Covid-19 case.
It is that of a 48-year-old cargo handler who was infected on October 8 and the source of the infection is still unknown.
Tam's chances of coming into contact with this person is so small and yet Beijing has told him not to bother coming on Monday for the session from Tuesday to Saturday.
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| A cargo handler was infected on October 8 |
"I got a notification from the country's epidemic control office informing me that I would not be allowed to attend the NPC Standing Committee meeting," Tam said in a video clip posted by his party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong.
"Recently there was one unknown case in Hong Kong. The mainland attaches great attention to unknown cases," Tam said, adding that no Hong Kong-related items were on the agenda anyway.
Nevertheless, it signals Beijing is not ready to open its borders with the city anytime soon.
"Beijing's prevention and control measures are very stringent. When there are changes to the pandemic situation in Hong Kong, especially when there are cases with untraceable origins, they will be even stricter," Tam said.
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| Hui says Beijing concerned of untraceable cases |
Government pandemic adviser David Hui Shu-cheong says measures for meeting top officials is even stricter, as they are worried of untraceable infections coming in.
"I am not too optimistic about the progress of reopening the border between the two sides, given what has happened," Tam said.
Neither are we.
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