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Close contacts are quarantined for 14 days and test negative and can leave the camp Xu Yingwei is expected to leave as soon as early Tuesday morning

2022-01-16T15:53:41.843Z


The Department of Health stated that considering the short incubation period of the mutant virus strain Omicron, it has updated the quarantine period requirements for close contacts of locally infected cases in quarantine centers, and shortened the quarantine period for those who have been vaccinated from 21 days to 14 days.


The Department of Health stated that considering the short incubation period of the mutant virus strain Omicron, it has updated the quarantine period requirements for close contacts of locally infected cases at the quarantine center, shortening the quarantine period for those who have been vaccinated from 21 days to 14 days. From tomorrow (17th), special departure arrangements will be made. If the virus test is negative, you can leave the camp. For the remaining days, you must self-monitor at home. You can go out, but you must avoid participating in social activities.


Under the new arrangement, the guests who attended the birthday party of Hong Weimin, deputy to the National People's Congress, and the confirmed cases can leave the camp as soon as early Tuesday morning, including officials such as the Secretary for Home Affairs Xu Yingwei and the Director of Immigration Au Jiahong, and Hong Weimin, the protagonist of the birthday party, and four other members of the Legislative Council.


The Centre for Health Protection announced that from tomorrow, people who have been quarantined for 14 days can leave the quarantine centre after testing negative.

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A test report is required, no restrictions on going out

The Centre for Health Protection will make special departure arrangements from tomorrow. If they have been quarantined at the quarantine centre for 14 days, they will be arranged for virus testing. If they obtain a negative test report, they will be arranged to leave the quarantine centre in an orderly manner. The scheduled 21-day quarantine period will be completed 1 to 7 days earlier.

The center also pointed out that during the remaining days of the original quarantine period, the people concerned must self-monitor at home, and there will be no restrictions on going out during the period, but they must pay attention to their physical conditions, maintain social distance, avoid participating in social activities, and the third day after the last contact with the positive test case. 19 days to the community testing center for testing.

The above arrangement does not apply to 599E quarantined persons.

10 officials attended Hong Weimin's birthday party.

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Under the new arrangement, officials, parliamentarians and other guests who attended the birthday party of Hong Weimin, deputy to the National People's Congress on January 3, were sent to Penny's Bay for quarantine because of a confirmed guest, and it is known that they can leave the camp at the earliest on Tuesday morning. , including the Secretary for Home Affairs, Mr Tsui Ying-wai.

▼1.8 Several officials and legislators left the Penny Quarantine Center▼


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▼Hong Weimin's birthday banquet has been fermented for several days▼


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Compulsory testing | Yau Ma Tei Haidilao, Wanchai Ruijing Hotel, etc. 6 places on the list are involved in Delta clerk Omicron | Pakistani Foodpanda takeaway test negative again and rated as a Fuyang case Changed the export limit, approved full-time approval, turned back on the Causeway Bay, Little Boss employee contracted the Delta variant, the source of which is unknown, and visited Haidilao before the disease.

Source: hk1

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