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New Coronary Pneumonia|Members of the Mainland advance team inspect BGI and local testing institutions

2020-08-04T08:34:30.401Z


The third wave of new coronavirus pneumonia in Hong Kong is serious. The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office stated that in response to the request of the Hong Kong government, the central government decided to send mainland inspection personnel to Hong Kong. Seven members of the "Advance Team" have arrived in Hong Kong recently and are staying at the Metropark Hotel in Kowloon. At about 9 o'clock in the morning today (4th), seven members of the advance team took a hotel shuttle bus to the "BGI Gene" company in Tai Po Industrial Estate. After the advance team members arrived, they did not respond to questions and entered the plant. A staff member was present to take the body temperature of the advance personnel. At about 12:30 noon, members of the advance team transferred to Taiping Industrial Park and Huasheng Diagnostic Center in Tai Po for inspection.


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2020-08-04 10:55

Last update date: 2020-08-04 16:27

The third wave of new coronavirus pneumonia in Hong Kong is serious. The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office stated that in response to the request of the Hong Kong government, the central government decided to send mainland inspection personnel to Hong Kong. Seven members of the "Advance Team" have arrived in Hong Kong recently and are staying at the Metropark Hotel in Kowloon.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning today (4th), seven members of the advance team took a hotel shuttle bus to the "BGI Gene" company in Tai Po Industrial Estate. After the advance team members arrived, they did not respond to questions and entered the plant. A staff member was present to take the body temperature of the advance personnel. At about 12:30 noon, members of the advance team transferred to Taiping Industrial Park and Huasheng Diagnostic Center in Tai Po for inspection.

At about 12:30 noon, members of the advance team left Tai Po Industrial Estate in a pick-up car from Metropark Hotel Kowloon. (Photo by Zhang Haowei)

Seven members of the advance team arrived in Hong Kong on Sunday (2nd) and did not go out yesterday (3rd). Hu Dingxu, Chairman of Huasheng Diagnostic Center and former Chairman of the Hospital Authority, arrived at Metropark Hotel Kowloon in a private car yesterday, accompanied by 4 men wearing white shirts with the words "Huo-Yan Laboratory" . After staying for more than an hour, Hu Dingxu left the hotel at about 11 o'clock in the morning and did not respond to media enquiries on the scene.

At about 12:30 noon, members of the advance team left Tai Po Industrial Estate in a pick-up car from Metropark Hotel Kowloon. They then went to the inspection center of Taiping Industrial Park and Huasheng Diagnostic Center in Tai Po for inspection.

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At about 1 p.m., after members of the advance team entered the Taiping Industrial Park, nearly 10 people working in the industrial park raised signs on the ground floor of the building to oppose the operation of the testing center in the industrial park. The group chanted "against the construction of the fire eye Slogans such as "Laboratory, Disregarding the Safety of Citizens".

One of the tenants, who did not want to be named, said that as they learned from the news that today’s experts arrived for inspection, they took this to express their opposition. She pointed out that because the building shares an elevator, and the environment is old and the environment is not good, "a laboratory has been seen as soon as the elevator door is opened," so she is very worried about the risk of transmission. The tenant said frankly that he was very helpless, saying that the Taiping Industrial Park was just across the street from the nearby residential buildings. "We are not opposed to starting a laboratory, but we are not close to residential areas." He also pointed out that we are also unwilling to take out and express delivery. To this building, life is extremely affected.

Police officers arrived at the scene to warn against the gathering restriction order

Later, Tai Po District Councillor Man Nianzhi and Chen Zhenzhe also attended the scene, but were obstructed by the industrial park security. Wen Nianzhi told reporters that it is known that the testing center is located on the third floor of Building A, and the owner of the testing center has also filed a lawsuit with the court. Chen Zhenzhe said that the building has a food supplier, and the building has not been strengthened with anti-epidemic measures. It is absolutely inappropriate to use it as a laboratory. He emphasized that the site should not be close to residential buildings. At least 10 police officers were present to warn those on the scene to disperse, otherwise they will be charged. The police officer also pointed out to the district councillors on the scene, "I have something to say, I have to vote against you."

Visit several local testing institutions in the afternoon

At approximately 2 pm, members of the advance team continued to take the shuttle bus of Metropark Hotel Kowloon, left Tai Ping Industrial Park in Tai Po, and arrived at approximately 2:30 pm and entered the Wang Kai Capital Building on Hoi Bun Road, Kwun Tong. The 15th floor of the building is Golden Mile Inspection (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., one of the government-approved local medical testing institutions.

Nearly 4 pm, members of the advance team arrived at the Po Hang Commercial Centre on Bonham East Street, Sheung Wan. The lift they took was stopped on the 27th floor. This place is one of the local testing institutions recognized by the government, the Hong Kong Molecular Pathology Center. . The reporter went to the 27th floor to inspect, and the floor signs showed that there were two companies on this floor, one was "Kaip Biotechnology Co., Ltd." and the other was "Hong Kong Molecular Pathology Diagnostic Center." There is a company name outside the door of "Kaipu Biotech Co., Ltd.", and outside the door of another company on the same floor, only authorized persons are allowed to enter, and the company name is not marked.

The members of the Mainland advance team arrived in Hong Kong on August 2 and checked into the Metropark Hotel Kowloon. (Information Picture/Photo by Lu Yiming)

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