The fifth wave of the epidemic continued to spread. Yat Kwai House and Ying Kwai House in Kwai Chung Village were closed and quarantined. Today (22nd) afternoon, there were more than 100 preliminary confirmed cases in Hong Kong.
The DAB issued an open letter today to Chief Executive Carrie Lam, urging the government to consider formulating a plan for compulsory testing for all, including asking the central government to send personnel to Hong Kong to assist.
The DAB also advocates actively conducting enclosed mandatory testing and dispatching additional manpower to support the epidemic prevention work.
The DAB wrote to Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor today, asking the government to take immediate and more aggressive measures to curb the fifth wave of the epidemic, and put forward three specific suggestions, including that if the epidemic continues to spread, the government should consider implementing mandatory testing for all; the authorities should more actively use Home isolation and enclosed mandatory testing measures; additional manpower in various departments of the civil service to support the implementation of epidemic prevention measures.
The Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong believes that the Hong Kong government should identify and eliminate the hidden transmission chain as soon as possible in a short period of time, and urge the government to immediately make preparations for compulsory testing of the whole people, including making a request to the central government to send personnel to Hong Kong again to assist in improving Hong Kong's testing capabilities. Identify all latent transmission chains within a short period of time.
Epidemic outbreak in Kwai Chung Village | The Federation of Trade Unions advocates nationwide testing if necessary. Chen Yingxin suggested batch or door-to-door testing. Colleagues from Margaret Hospital also recruited a total of 96 people in the ward of Yak Kwai Building before the suspension of labor. A total of 96 male residents who were infected at the beginning of the epidemic were working in Song Yue Yuan Nursing Home. After trying the stairs, the epidemic was stopped | Fu Qiang Building and Fu Tak Building in Tai Wo Hau Village are only 10 minutes walk from Zhongzhao and Yat Kui Building