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Written by: Hu Jiaxin
2020-07-15 00:08
Last update date: 2020-07-15 00:08The New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic continues to spread in Hong Kong communities. Chief Executive Officer Lin Cheng Yuee announced yesterday that he has arranged two Mainland private organizations to assist Hong Kong in virus testing. The amount involved is hundreds of millions of yuan. The day after the incident, the Food and Health Bureau announced that the government would purchase testing services from the two laboratories in the evening, from the opening of BGI Gene in the Mainland, Huasheng Diagnostic Center and local biotechnology company Prenetics. The Association of Property Management Companies also discusses testing services with China Inspection Co., Ltd. and will be funded by the Epidemic Prevention and Anti-epidemic Fund.
The government explained that only these three laboratories in the market can provide tens of thousands of nucleic acid testing services in a short time, and decided to purchase services directly from two of them through the anti-epidemic fund. The testing started in batches this week, first testing the elderly homes and taxi drivers, two higher-risk groups.
The government plans to give priority to the detection of four high-risk groups, which is expected to involve about 400,000 people. (Profile picture)
Testing this week will start with priority inspections for elderly homes and taxi drivers
The government plans to give priority to testing for four high-risk groups, including residential care homes, restaurants, property management staff and taxi drivers, which are expected to involve about 400,000 people. The Food and Health Bureau announced at nearly 11 pm that after contacting major private laboratories in Hong Kong, it was learned that only three laboratories on the market could provide tens of thousands of nucleic acid testing services within a short period of time. Opened Huasheng Diagnostic Center, China Inspection Co., Ltd. and local biotechnology company Prenetics.
The Bureau pointed out that due to the urgent need to carry out large-scale testing, considering the testing service model provided by the relevant laboratory, whether it can cooperate with the actual operation of the relevant industry, it was decided to purchase testing directly from Huasheng Diagnostic Center and Prenetics through the Epidemic Prevention Fund Services for voluntary testing of residential care homes, taxi drivers and restaurant staff.
In view of the large scale of the test, the test will start in batches this week. First, it will test the employees in the elderly homes, homes for the disabled and nursing homes, and taxi drivers.
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Personal data collected will not be transferred to overseas institutions or persons
The Hong Kong Association of Property Management Companies also discussed with China Inspection to provide inspection services for the sector, and the Foundation for Anti-epidemic and Anti-epidemic Funding provided funding. The bureau continued to refer to related services including "one-stop" services from sampling to testing. Since the testing arrangements for different sectors will be different, the testing costs will also be different. For example, the staff of the institution is more suitable to be arranged to collect samples at home, which involves higher logistics costs. According to the bureau, the relevant testing service fees are still being discussed with individual companies at this stage. The relevant testing costs will be reviewed to ensure that the procurement costs are reasonable. Information on the use of funding will also be announced later.
The bureau also pointed out that any personal data collected or used after testing services must comply with the provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. The government department or testing agency that processes the relevant data will report to the Department of Health or other Relevant departments provide information for epidemic prevention purposes, and the work process does not involve providing any personal data to overseas institutions or persons.
The Department of Health has also directly purchased testing services from five local private laboratories. The relevant laboratories will assist the department in testing today. A total of about 1,000 samples can be processed daily. The HA is also discussing the establishment of special counters in general outpatient clinics to provide deep throat saliva sample bottles to people who are suspected of having mild symptoms and hope to undergo virus testing to further increase the scope of testing.
The Chief Executive, Lin Zhengyue, went to a nursing home in Ciyun Mountain today to inspect the detection status of Huasheng Diagnostic Center on the first day. Lin Zheng listened to the person in charge of Huasheng to explain the arrangements and procedures for collecting pharyngeal swab samples for virus detection for about 80 employees in the institution. Hu Dingxu, director of Huasheng, also has peers.
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