Kwai Chung Village has recorded 105 confirmed or preliminary confirmed cases in the whole village, and the patients even involve staff of elderly homes and hospitals.
The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, announced that Yat Kwai Building and Ying Kui Building must be placed under a foot ban, 4 buildings need to be enclosed and tested, and the remaining 10 buildings are listed in the mandatory testing announcement.
She appealed to the residents of the 10 buildings only listed in the mandatory testing announcement to stay at home. If they are working in places exposed to high-risk places, such as employees in nursing homes, residential homes, medical institutions, etc., they should not go to work again. .
Carrie Lam also called on the public to get vaccinated as soon as possible, saying that the current rate of eligible first-dose vaccinations has reached 77.5%, and she believes that there is a chance of reaching 80% or more.
▼At 4:00 a.m. on January 22, the enclosure of Yingkui Building in Kwai Chung Village was forcibly inspected▼
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Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor thanked the residents of Kwai Chung Village for cooperating with the arrangement of ground-free testing and enclosure testing, but also hoped that the villagers in the 10 blocks that still do not need to be enclosed are better to stay at home and reduce going out. Residents working in medical institutions should not continue to work and call on employers to cooperate, otherwise it will be "very dangerous" to bring the virus to the relevant premises
When asked if subsidies would be provided to those who could not go to work, Carrie Lam pointed out that the Anti-epidemic Fund has launched 5 rounds of subsidy. If it causes inconvenience to some people, we will try our best to provide convenience for the people concerned, but we cannot satisfy everyone.
She also pointed out that there will be sacrifices in the fight against the epidemic. Some people will have a greater impact, while others will have a lesser impact. Thank you to the public for your cooperation.
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She pointed out that the current vaccination rate of children and the elderly is low, and she hopes that those who have not been vaccinated will be vaccinated as soon as possible. She is "excited" that 48,000 people were vaccinated yesterday, and the number of first injections has also rebounded to 20,000, making the current eligible people's The first vaccination rate is 77.5%, and it is believed that there is a chance that the vaccination rate can reach 80% or even higher. Eligible citizens are also called on to make an appointment for the third booster dose as soon as possible.
▼On January 21, residents of Yat Kwai House in Kwai Chung Village were banned from their feet and quarantined on the first night of falling down for testing▼
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A total of 96 male residents in Yat Kwai Building were infected at the beginning of the day. 50 seniors were required to be quarantined and closed at the Pine Garden Nursing Home | Yak Kwai House was enclosed and had not been arranged for testing. The two residents of Fu Keung Building and Fu Tak Building are only 10 minutes walk from Yat Kwai House. There are many sources of transmission in Yak Kwai House. Liang Zichao is worried that the fifth wave will spread all over Hong Kong and calls on citizens to stay at home and close down the district｜Yak Kwai House, Kwai Chung Village On the first day of the lockdown, residents approved of slow efficiency and no floor cleaning. Police clerks in Yak Kwai House, Kwai Chung Estate were recruited to be stationed at the Tsuen Wan Government Offices. sad
