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Sham Shui Po Man Tsing Street epidemic is like a ghost town with zero customer detection during lunch hours, staff sent bottles to the restaurant

2021-01-21T10:08:59.651Z


Affected by the rebound of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, some areas of Sham Shui Po have been included in the designated areas for mandatory testing. The area around Da Nan Street where Wenqing small shops gather has recently become quiet and crowded restaurants in the past.


District 18 News

Written by: Huang Jinghong

2021-01-21 18:01

Last update date: 2021-01-21 18:02

Affected by the rebound of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, some areas of Sham Shui Po have been included in the designated areas for mandatory testing. The Tai Nan Street area where Wenqing small shops gather has become quiet recently. Restaurants that have been waiting for lunch in the past are filled with people. Today (21st) There was no one, the scene was deserted.

A government outsourced testing center staff distributed sample bottles to restaurants in the mandatory testing area, but the response was not overwhelming. There were also restaurant leaders who expressed that they were worried that the testing personnel would have the risk of transmission and would not let the staff enter the restaurant area. Everyone is at risk.

Affected by the rebound of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, some areas of Sham Shui Po have been included in designated areas for mandatory testing.

Following the mandatory inspection area set up by the government in the area from Yau Ma Tei to Jordan, Deputy Director of the Food and Health Bureau Xu Deyi announced the day before (19th) that Sham Shui Po will be included in the mandatory inspection area, covering the northwest to Yen Chow Street and the northeast to Tai Po Road, southeast to Maple Street, southwest to Lai Chi Kok Road. If a building in the area has 1 or more confirmed cases in the past 14 days, the building will be included in the mandatory testing notice; and the building has been in the building in the past 14 days People who need to be subject to mandatory testing.

The authorities are setting up a mobile sampling station on Maple Street to test residents for free.

A reporter from "Hong Kong 01" today (21st) toured the area of ​​Sham Shui Po, where cultural and youthful shops and traditional old shops were mixed, within the scope of mandatory testing. Under the haze of the epidemic, everything became quiet.

A notice issued by the Home Affairs Department is posted at the entrance of each building, calling on residents to voluntarily undergo testing.

Some cleaners are stepping up to clean the streets.

The cleaners are stepping up to clean the streets.

(Photo by Huang Jinghong)

The reaction of sample bottles to the restaurant is not satisfactory

There are government outsourced inspection staff wearing "Project Screen by Circle" shirts, dragging a car of inspection tools on the streets of Sham Shui Po.

The staff stated that they will distribute sample bottles to designated restaurants within the mandatory testing area. They are expected to go to 40 restaurants today, but they have just visited 5 restaurants to distribute them. Two of them indicated that they refused to accept it. The testing staff described the response as average.

The staff pointed out that the list of restaurants in hand is provided by the government. They will return to the restaurants willing to be tested in two days and collect sample bottles from the staff at no charge.

The person in charge of the restaurant refuses to enter the inspection agency staff

At noon time, the restaurant "Little House" located in the inspection area of ​​Great South Street was empty. The person in charge, Ms. Chen, said that the business volume plummeted by two-thirds. "It was this time before, so I won’t see you. "Scene", if business continues to be weak, I have no choice but to ask full-time employees to rest in batches to reduce shop expenses.

When Ms. Chen learned that a testing agency would distribute sample bottles to the restaurant, she believed that the staff wandering around the affected area had too extensive contact with her, and she had reservations about this. "I won’t come in, just let me know if it’s not. One of the spreading chains," she continued, pointed out that if the clerk and herself feel the need, they will conduct tests on their own, but no action is taken at this stage.

The little house was empty during lunch.

(Photo by Huang Jinghong)

The person in charge, Ms. Chen, is worried that the staff of the testing center is a link in the transmission chain, so they will not be allowed in.

(Photo by Huang Jinghong)

In another restaurant, "Coffee of the day," there are 4 customers in the restaurant and they all maintain social distancing during their meals. The clerk said that after the area was included in the mandatory testing area, the flow of people on Danan Street decreased and the business volume was not as good as before.

She also appeared worried about the epidemic, but did not take the initiative to test.

Diners who ate in a semi-outdoor area said that they work in nearby shops and the flow of people on the street is drastically reduced. They can eat without waiting for lunch. They all expressed that they are not too worried about the epidemic in the area.

At the scene, there were no diners waiting in line outside the other Wenqing restaurant shops on the street, and because of social distancing measures, the number of seats per table was restricted, which seemed even more deserted.

In other Wenqing restaurants on the street, there were no diners waiting outside the door.

(Photo by Huang Jinghong)

The Deputy Director of the Food and Health Bureau, Xu Deyi, said earlier that the environment in the core areas is relatively poor. Many of them are "three-nos" buildings with no owners' corporations, no resident organizations, and no management companies. Taking into account the lack of sanitation in the old districts Well, there are more confirmed cases, and the measures may be extended to other areas.

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