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Written by: Yang Qian
2021-01-27 06:33
Last update date: 2021-01-27 06:35
The "restricted areas" such as Bi Street in Yau Ma Tei, which were blocked for compulsory inspections, were released at 6 am this morning.
The government issued an announcement stating that during the period, about 330 residents were tested and a confirmed case was found. The confirmed person and his close contacts have been sent to the hospital and the quarantine center for follow-up.
The Home Affairs Department and its Licensing Office, Police Office, Yau Tsim Mong District Office and Sham Shui Po District Office mobilized a total of 380 people to participate in the operation and conducted a total of 306 home visits, of which about 93 households were unattended. Measures will be taken to follow up and investigate.
The government quoted the "Prevention and Control of Diseases (Compulsory Testing for Certain Persons) Regulations" (Chapter 599J) and made a declaration of restriction and testing (hereinafter referred to as the "relevant declaration"), which will be restricted to Yau Ma Tei from 7 pm yesterday (26th) Specify that people in the "restricted areas" (i.e. 9-27 Bi Street and 3 Dong'an Street) stay on their premises and undergo mandatory testing according to government arrangements.
During this period, the subject must wait at his premises until all the identified subjects in the area have completed the tests and the relevant test results have been roughly confirmed before leaving the premises.
The government yesterday set up 8 temporary sampling stations in the "restricted area", requiring the subjects to be tested at the sampling station before midnight of the same day for rapid antigen testing, combined swab sampling of the nose and throat, and 2019 coronavirus testing.
The rapid antigen test yields results in about 30 minutes.
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The government announced that the operation will end at about 6 o'clock this morning, and it will take another step towards the goal of "fighting the epidemic together and "clearing the community"."
It said that during the period, the inspected persons were provided with simple food access, including cup noodles, soup dumplings (chicken or pig), soy milk, canned ham and pork, tuna fish and bottled water to facilitate the dinner arrangements of some inspected persons.
The government also provides a box of masks and handrubs to the people under inspection to help them fight the epidemic.
Responding to doubts about ignoring the needs of minorities
The government announcement stated that considering that there are many ethnic minorities in the "restricted area", the Home Affairs Department has arranged 18 staff who can speak Nepali, Urdu or Hindi to assist ethnic minorities. Go to the sampling station for testing and assist the staff to explain the arrangements for restrictions and testing announcements; also produced leaflets in three popular ethnic minority languages (Nepalese, Urdu and Hindi) and distributed them to People in a "restricted area"; a telephone hotline for ethnic minorities has also been set up for inquiries and help from ethnic minorities who are restricted by the test declaration.
Another hotline set up by the Home Affairs Department handled about 26 enquiries, including inspection arrangements and scope of inspections.
The government reminds anyone who has been in the "restricted area" for more than two hours in the past 14 days, even if they are not in the "restricted area" when the relevant declaration takes effect, they must follow the mandatory testing announcement and go to the testing center for testing as soon as possible.
Anyone who violates the restrictions and the test declaration is a crime and is liable to a fine of 25,000 yuan and six months' imprisonment.
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