Recently, the new crown pneumonia epidemic has continued to worsen, and many confirmed cases have involved markets and many districts.
The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (18th) that five markets were closed early at 7 pm today due to their connection with confirmed cases. The markets involved include Tsuen Wan Market, Tai Shing Street Market, Kwun Chung Market and Haiphong Road Temporary Market and Sai Kung Street Market.
Some markets will be closed tomorrow (19th) for cleaning and disinfection, and are expected to reopen as soon as the 20th of this month.
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Tsuen Wan Market, Tai Shing Street Market and Kwun Chung Market will be closed on Saturday and are expected to reopen on Sunday
The FEHD stated that due to the confirmed cases being related to Tsuen Wan Market, Tai Shing Street Market and Kwun Chung Market, for the sake of prudence, the three markets will be closed at 7 pm today and will not be open for business tomorrow (19th). Carry out cleaning and disinfection work to protect the health and safety of market stalls and the public.
Regarding the work scope of the confirmed cases, the FEHD stated that it has immediately arranged cleaning and disinfection. During the deep cleaning and disinfection work, the department's staff will also thoroughly clean and disinfect the common areas and facilities of the market, and ask the market stall tenants to cooperate. , cleaning and disinfecting the range of its stalls.
In addition, the FEHD will also arrange for street cleaning in the vicinity of the market.
The department continued to point out that it will keep in touch with market stall holders and ask them to go to the community testing center for free testing as soon as possible, and obtain negative results before the market reopens.
Wong Tai Sin Tai Shing Street Market will be closed an hour earlier at 7pm today and will be closed for the whole day tomorrow (19th).
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Initial confirmed cases in Haiphong Road Temporary Market and Sai Kung Street Market
In addition, as the Haiphong Road Temporary Market and the Sai Kung Street Market were each related to one preliminary confirmed case, they were closed earlier at 7 pm today.
After the market is closed early, the FEHD will carry out cleaning and disinfection work in the working area of patients, public areas and facilities of the market, etc., and will require market stall owners to cooperate in cleaning and disinfecting the stalls.
The DH will also conduct cleaning and disinfection at the periphery of the market and nearby streets.
Market stall households who have been associated with the initial confirmed case will also be required to undergo virus testing.
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