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Written by: Chen Jiayi
2020-09-25 22:53
Last update date: 2020-09-25 22:53
The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (25th) that it will continue to arrange free voluntary COVID-19 testing services for specific groups, targeting high-touch groups of frontline staff in the catering business, street market stall workers and licensed hawkers, etc., testing contractors It is Prenetics Limited.
Persons in charge of restaurants, market stall operators and resident staff under the FEHD and hawker licensees can register for testing services through the FEHD website from tomorrow (26th).
Market stalls not managed by the FEHD do not need to register on the FEHD website, and the testing contractor will contact them directly.
FEHD market vendors
can register on the FEHD website tomorrow
The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced that it will continue to arrange free voluntary COVID-19 testing services for front-line employees of the catering business, market stall operators, and licensed hawkers in high-contact groups.
The person in charge of the restaurant, the person in charge of the market stall under the FEHD and the hawker licensee can register on the FEHD website from tomorrow (26th) to the 15th of next month.
Other stalls that are not managed by the FEHD, including the Housing Authority, Link or other private markets, do not need to register on the FEHD website. The testing contractor Prenetics Limited will contact them directly.
Testing contractors will start testing services on October 1.
The FEHD currently conducts repeated tests for all Sheung Shui slaughterhouse workers every week. It will also provide voluntary free virus testing services for high-exposure groups, including licensed general restaurants, licensed snack restaurants, and licensed floating restaurants , Restaurant staff in licensed factory canteens, school canteens, staff canteens, market stall practitioners and resident staff, as well as hawker licensees and registration assistants.
The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department will conduct inspections for employees of the catering industry, market stalls and licensed hawkers from next month, and those in charge of restaurants can register online from tomorrow (26th).
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Contractor will be the first to contact bar and karaoke staff
During the long holiday beginning on October 1, the testing contractor will be the first to provide testing for practitioners in some locations, including bars or pubs that were closed during the testing period, karaoke, and sample bottles distributed by the Center for Health Protection at that time without repeating Detected restaurants.
The testing contractor will send staff to restaurants, markets and hawker stalls to distribute deep throat saliva sample bottles, and then take back the samples for testing within one to two days. The person in charge of the premises shall take back all unused sample bottles to the contractor on the same day.
The FEHD will work with the testing contractor to determine the order of dispatching staff to various locations based on risk assessment and manpower resources.
Cases with an initial positive test result will be immediately referred to the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health for follow-up.
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A spokesperson for the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department reiterated that in order to conduct more extensive monitoring at the community level and to incorporate epidemic prevention and control and infection management into the new normal of daily operations of the society, the government integrates and regularizes specific group-specific testing programs as targeted monitoring One link: The specific group detection plan will be used as a part of the monitoring and early warning system to cooperate with contact tracing and epidemiological investigations, which is beneficial to "early detection, early isolation, and early treatment", but also provides reference for the overall epidemic assessment data.
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