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Written by: Yuan Shu
2021-02-17 12:13
Last update date: 2021-02-17 12:13
The new pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong has a trend of easing during the Lunar New Year of the Ox. The government announced on the seventh (18th) of the Lunar New Year that restaurants and evening dine-in will be relaxed, and fitness centers, beauty salons, theme parks and cinemas will be reopened. Conditions One is that the employees of the premises have to conduct inspections every two weeks, which has led to long queues at multiple inspection centers in recent days.
The Sha Tsui Road Mobile Sampling Center was crowded in the morning. Hundreds of people were waiting to be tested for "snake cakes" in the venue. Many people were unsuccessful in the test yesterday, so they queued up an hour or two earlier today.
Some workers in the catering industry pointed out that queuing in the sun is uncomfortable, and the queue time is too long. "You have to wait, you have to eat, you don’t have to eat."
On the sixth day of February 17th, there was a long queue at the mobile inspection station on Sha Tsui Road, Tsuen Wan
The mobile sampling station at Sha Tsui Road Recreation Ground in Tsuen Wan once again had a long queue today.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, the people in line had already circled the stadium. It is estimated that it will take more than one hour to queue from Longwei to inspection.
Compared with the community testing center, the mobile sampling station is "no tiles to cover their heads." Some people wear hats to avoid light, while others open umbrellas to shade their heads.
Ms. Huang pointed out that the online appointment is about to go until the 21st. If you don't do it today, you won't be able to start work tomorrow.
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Ms. Huang, who works in the catering industry, said that she had come to line up at 8 o'clock this morning, but she was already "Dragon Tail". She came to do the test at the request of the government, saying that the online appointment had to go to the 21st. If you don't do it today, you can't make it to work tomorrow.
She said that since the epidemic, most of the time there has been underemployment, and there has been no work for more than half a month.
She said that queuing under the big sun is "not comfortable," and that it will be troublesome to line up every two weeks in the future. "The government should set up an independent testing center for the catering industry. We don't want to queue up with the public."
Mr. Wang waited for more than 40 minutes and only got in the middle of the line. He said it would be better if the testing station could be set up in stadiums and other venues.
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Mr. Wang did the project, and the company required a negative result before rework, so he came for a test.
He said that he had already wanted to do the test yesterday, but he gave up when he saw too many people. Instead, he came this morning and waited more than 40 minutes to get to the middle of the team. He said that the government requires that the company can only cooperate, but thinks that if the mobile sampling can be carried out It would be better to set up the station in a gymnasium.
Miss Li was intercepted yesterday, and she had already queued up at 7 o'clock this morning, and by 9 o'clock, she had not been tested.
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Ms. Li, who works in the beauty salon, said that she came to line up for testing at 7 o'clock last night, but because the dragon gave up, she came to line up at 7 o'clock this morning.
She said that since the beginning of the epidemic, beauty salons have not been in operation for a long time. It is a good thing that the test can be reworked. However, she is worried that the government will no longer bear the cost for testing afterwards. Just don't do it."
Mr. Tung from the construction industry said that many workers do not know how to make an appointment online, and think that a mobile inspection station that can directly queue up is good.
((Photo by Cen Zhuoxi)
There is also Mr. Tung who works in the construction industry queuing up with his workers for testing. He said that most of the workers do not know how to make appointments online. It is very convenient for them to queue directly at mobile monitoring stations.
He said that it is reasonable for the government to require workers in the construction industry to have a negative nucleic acid result before they can return to work, so that everyone can rest assured, "A lot of the work comes from our construction industry. If there is no result, there is no way to start work."
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