A number of cleaning workers have been diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia one after another. Huang Yuyuan, president of the cleaning service trade union, said on the Hong Kong and Taiwan program "Millennium" that under the epidemic, cleaning workers have to be anxious to go to work, and are required to undergo compulsory testing or isolation. Waiting for a test for several hours, facing the impact of "hand stop and stop" affecting livelihood, urge the government to reconsider the inclusion of new coronary pneumonia as an occupational disease.
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Huang Yuyuan said that what workers lack most is adequate and correct training and anti-epidemic equipment. Even though the government provides guidelines for wearing equipment when entering high-risk venues, cleaning contractors also have cost control considerations. For them, there is no sufficient incentive to provide additional equipment, and urge the government to strengthen support for the trade and frontline workers.
He took Kwai Chung Village, where the epidemic broke out earlier, as an example. Some cleaners had to undergo compulsory testing or isolation, while some cleaners who were part-time workers had to queue for several hours for testing due to forced inspections, which affected their livelihoods.
He urged the government to reconsider the inclusion of COVID-19 as an occupational disease, and to formulate training guidelines for entering infected venues. He is also happy to see that the government distributes rapid test kits, hoping to reduce the flow of people for testing and solve the problem of "stopping while talking".
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