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Written by: Zhu Haiqi
2021-06-20 11:20
Last update date: 2021-06-20 11:21
Employees of residential care homes for the elderly are required to be tested regularly, and those who have completed the vaccination are exempted.
The Bureau of Labor and Welfare started this Friday (25th) and stopped granting a 200 yuan per month ex-gratia allowance to employees undergoing compulsory testing. Director Luo Zhiguang explained today that employees may prefer to receive allowances rather than vaccinations. This is a disguised anti-epidemic measure. obstacle.
Luo Zhiguang’s blog explained that in the initial stage, the locations that could provide testing were limited, and many employees had to spend extra time or make special arrangements for testing, which caused a lot of inconvenience. At that time, the Social Welfare Department provided each employee with a special allowance of 200 yuan per month. To this day, the relevant arrangements may become one of the obstacles to epidemic prevention measures, and employees may prefer to receive allowances rather than vaccinations.
In terms of virus testing, in order to ensure the accuracy of sampling, the authorities initially only allowed employees of institutions to go to the testing center or testing station set up by the government, or to an approved laboratory arranged by the institution itself, or even to a government-approved private laboratory at their own expense to receive nasal cavity. Combined with the throat swab sample collection virus test, but at that time the foreign domestic helpers with unknown source of infection were infected with a highly contagious variant virus strain. The 370,000 foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong required mandatory virus testing, which led to the emergence of testing centers or testing stations in Hong Kong. The queues and appointments are full, so employees can also take deep throat saliva testing. The mandatory virus testing for foreign domestic helpers has ended. It is time to consider disabling the deep throat saliva sampling test.
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As for the frequency of testing, the first and second rounds started on December 1 last year every 14 days, and the third round began to be shortened to once every 10 days. However, by the 12th round on April 2nd, employees in multiple industries had to Compulsory testing has changed back to once every 14 days. However, the number of people who have been vaccinated has increased, and the number of people undergoing mandatory testing has been declining. Luo Zhiguang believes that there is a need to shorten the mandatory testing cycle for residential staff. The 18th round started on June 25 The inspection period will be shortened to 10 days, and may be shortened to 7 days if feasible in the future.
The blog mentions that up to June 15th, it is estimated that about 30% of the staff in the institutions have received at least the first dose of the vaccine. Although the ratio is no less than the injection rate in Hong Kong, it is equivalent to the 80% injection rate that reaches the epidemic prevention barrier. The Emergency Scientific Advisory Group recommends) that there is still a long way to go. Therefore, it is necessary to stop issuing special testing allowances, and to issue a one-time 800 yuan vaccine subsidy to injection employees. Visitors who have received injections do not need to present a test certificate.
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