After the COVID-19 variant Omicron entered the community, an unusual outbreak has recently occurred in Yat Kwai House, Kwai Chung Village: the affected households are scattered on the 12th floor, with different orientations. The authorities have ruled out the possibility of transmission caused by the structural environment of the building. human-to-human infection.
Therefore, the government decided today (21st) to enclose Yat Kwai Building from 6:00 p.m. today to January 26th. During this period, about 2,700 residents in the whole building will be tested every day. unit.
The Housing Department will be in charge of the operation, and will arrange meals and distribute anti-epidemic materials.
At the moment of the siege, many residents were still out and did not return home. After the blockade surrounded the Yikui Building, the people who went home carried a lot of daily necessities and food for emergency needs in the next five days.
After that, staff wearing protective clothing moved in one after another. People came and went at the testing station at about 8 o'clock in the evening, and the longest siege was carried out since the first closed area testing in January last year.
Photography: Liang Pengwei
Photo editor: Zhou Yingyao
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