The Hong Kong government will not accept deep throat saliva samples from arriving Hong Kong people from Tuesday, and they must go directly to the community testing center for testing

The government announced tonight (22) that from tomorrow (23), it will adjust the nucleic acid testing arrangements for people arriving in Hong Kong. Deep throat saliva samples will no longer be tested. They must go to the community testing center for combined nasal and throat swab samples for testing.

If they need to take public transportation, they can only take a taxi. They are not allowed to get off the bus. They must also record the license plate number of the vehicle they take, and keep the record for 30 days from the day they take the vehicle, or use "An Xin "Travel" is recorded.

The government announced that it will no longer accept deep throat saliva samples from arriving people in Hong Kong, and must go to a community testing center for testing with combined swab samples of the nose and throat.

(Information Picture/Photographed by Zhang Haowei)

At present, there are only two types of people arriving in Hong Kong who can use deep throat saliva samples for nucleic acid testing, including those who have stayed in the Mainland or Macau but did not arrive in Hong Kong under the "Easy-Return" or "Easy-to-Hong Kong" program, and those who have only stayed in the specified group B Children under the age of 12 who have not been vaccinated but are allowed to continue to self-isolate with their escorts at home if they meet the specified conditions.

Under the new arrangement, the above-mentioned people who arrive in Hong Kong tomorrow or later must go to the community testing center to take a combined swab sample of the nose and throat for testing. Deep throat saliva samples can no longer be used.

They must use direct transportation to travel to and from the quarantine or quarantine site and the community testing center when they go for testing.

The government announced earlier that the designated testing group can no longer do deep throat saliva testing, and can only do swab sampling testing.

(Information Picture/Photographed by Lu Yiming)

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