Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor today (February 1) visited the two Case Tracking Offices (Tracking Offices) in Kai Tak and Mong Kok on the first day of the Lunar New Year to visit staff on duty and encouraged them to step up the tracking of confirmed cases in response to the current local COVID-19 epidemic contacts and wish them New Year's greetings.
There are more than 400 staff in the two offices, which can be increased as needed
Accompanied by the Secretary for Food and Health, Sophia Chan, the Secretary for Security, Tang Ping-keung, and the Director of Health, Mrs Lam Man Kin, Carrie Lam successively went to the tracking office established by the Department of Health in Kai Tak in January last year, and the new one in Mong Kok, which will be put into operation in late January this year. Operational tracking office.
The Commissioner of Correctional Services, Wu Yingming, and the Commissioner of Customs and Excise, Ho Pei Shan, also went to the tracking office in Mong Kok to cheer for the staff and send New Year wishes.
The tracking office staff explained to Carrie Lam the comprehensive tracking work undertaken in response to the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong.
Among them, the tracking office successfully controlled the "Mochizukilou" group earlier, including all about 200 customers (80% of whom were contacted within 24 hours) and 22 staff members who ate in the restaurant during the relevant period, and the group targeted More than 1,000 close contacts and family members living with the 16 confirmed cases were traced and sent to quarantine in batches.
Carrie Lam affirmed the efficiency of the tracing office, and encouraged the staff to use greater endurance and empathy to contact close contacts and arrange for them to go to quarantine centers for quarantine.
Call on citizens to reduce gatherings
The two tracking offices currently have a total staff of more than 400 people, most of whom are from various disciplined services, with investigation experience and have been trained by the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health.
The Tracking Office has so far successfully assisted in tracing more than 31,000 contacts, including arranging relevant persons to undergo compulsory quarantine; for the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong, more than 60% of the cases with epidemiological links to imported cases or local cases were in quarantine centres Or found during quarantine in the enclosed building, that is, when the test result is found to be positive, the patient is no longer wandering in the community.
In addition, more than 10,000 serving and retired staff of the disciplined services have participated in the training so that the government can mobilize more manpower for contact tracing if necessary.
Carrie Lam said: "Faced with the highly transmissible Omicron mutant virus strain, the government is committed to taking 'fast, accurate and ruthless' measures to curb the fifth wave of the epidemic as soon as possible. In addition to isolation, and requiring close contacts of close contacts to undergo compulsory testing or compulsory quarantine according to the degree of risk, it is an important part of the time race between the government and the mutant virus strain to contain the epidemic. I sincerely thank the citizens for their high cooperation in the anti-epidemic work. , especially those who are required to undergo compulsory quarantine during the festive period, every one of you has contributed to helping Hong Kong win the new wave of the epidemic again. I also once again call on the public to continue to support the government's anti-epidemic work and try their best during the Lunar New Year period. Stay at home, reduce cross-family gatherings, and maintain personal hygiene, in order to defeat this wave of epidemics as soon as possible and gradually return to normal life."
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