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[New Crown Pneumonia] Civil servants resume work. Admiralty restaurants line up with long lines of wage earners: half more people

2020-05-04T07:06:30.004Z


The epidemic situation of the new coronavirus pneumonia has recently eased. No local confirmed cases have been found for several consecutive days. The government resumed services in two stages. Today (4th), most civil servants resumed work. The reporter went to the area around Admiralty to observe the situation this afternoon and found that almost all restaurants have long lines of people. Whether they buy takeaways or dine in, they need to line up. An office worker in Admiralty said that today's traffic is more than half that of last week, and the time for waiting for takeaway is at least twice as much. However, it is reasonable to think that the society will gradually return to normal when the epidemic slows down.


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Written by: Huang Weilun

2020-05-04 15:01

Last update date: 2020-05-04 15:01

The epidemic situation of the new coronavirus pneumonia has recently eased. No local confirmed cases have been found for several consecutive days. The government resumed services in two stages. Today (4th), most civil servants resumed work. The reporter went to the area around Admiralty to observe the situation this afternoon and found that almost all restaurants have long lines of people. Whether they buy takeaways or dine in, they need to line up.

An office worker in Admiralty said that today's traffic is more than half that of last week, and the time for waiting for takeaway is at least twice as much. However, it is reasonable to think that the society will gradually return to normal when the epidemic slows down.

All restaurants in Admiralty have to line up for lunch. (Photo by Huang Weilun)

The reporter observed the restaurant situation at Admiralty Admiralty Centre, Admiralty Gallery, and Far East Financial Center at about 1pm this afternoon, and found that during the peak period, almost all restaurants need to line up, and some chain restaurants have more than 20 people in line; Two teams, one to buy takeaway and the other to dine in. As seen on the scene, many restaurants are full of seats, with partitions placed between each table.

Ms. Huang said that more than half of the people flowed today and the waiting time for meals was twice as long. ﹙Photo by Huang Weilun﹚

Takeaway orders on the Internet still have to wait at the shop for more than 15 minutes

Ms. Huang, an office worker at Admiralty, said that today ’s lunch flow is estimated to be more than half of that before the official resumption of work. Previously, it only took 5 minutes to buy takeaways. More than twice as long. However, she believes that under the slowdown of the epidemic, civil servants can indeed resume their work, and other measures should be relaxed, such as restaurants can seat 6-8 people per table. As for other venues, she believes that Karaoke is always at high risk and remains closed.

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Miss Chen waited for 20 minutes and still had no meal available. ﹙Photo by Huang Weilun﹚

There are many strangers in the restaurant who still choose to take out

Miss Chen, who works in the vicinity of Admiralty, waited outside the chain of rice noodle shops for takeout. At that time, there were about 10 people waiting in line to place orders. She said that before the civil servants resumed work, there were generally only about 2 or 3 people queuing up, thinking that today's lunch time was about three or four more adults. She said that because she was worried about many strangers in the restaurant, she usually bought takeaways under the epidemic situation, but today it took about 20 minutes together with queuing to order and waiting for food.

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Source: hk1

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