The government is currently arranging anti-epidemic buses and taxis to take confirmed patients to community isolation facilities.
According to the latest arrangement of the Transport Department, the number of dedicated bus fleets will be adjusted to 800 vehicles from the end of this month, and the dedicated taxi fleets providing related services will be adjusted to 200 vehicles from the end of this month. In other words, both services will be reduced by 200 vehicles.
▼2.18 Anti-epidemic taxis operate on the first day▼
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According to the Transport Department, at the initial stage of operation of the fleet, there were about 240 taxis, with an average of 2,100 bookings and 1,400 trips completed every day. As the number of clinics designated by the Hospital Authority has increased from 7 to 23, the taxi fleet operators have responded accordingly. Adjusting the number of taxis, the number of exclusive taxis increased to 480 as of March 20.
Between March 18 and 22, the dedicated taxi fleet averaged about 4,600 bookings and completed 3,300 trips per day.
Anti-epidemic buses have increased to 1,000 on March 22
In addition, since February 21, a dedicated bus fleet has been assisting in transporting people who have tested positive to community isolation facilities, with about 200 buses at the initial stage of operation.
The number of buses increased to 1,000 as of March 22 as more community quarantine facilities came into service.
The Fire Services Department will divert the cases to the bus fleet to arrange for the transfer of the person concerned to the designated community isolation facility.
▼About 30 drivers of anti-epidemic taxis contracted the virus on March 15▼
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400 anti-epidemic taxis pick up quarantined people from 3.18
In addition to the dedicated fleet of small and medium-sized buses, the government has also arranged a dedicated taxi fleet to provide an additional 400 dedicated taxis starting from March 18 to pick up people who have tested positive for community isolation facilities. Arranged at.
The Government will provide a daily subsidy of $3,500, $4,500 and $5,500 for each dedicated taxi, medium and small buses and large buses under the dedicated bus fleet, respectively, to help the trade in preparing the fleet and hiring drivers, as well as setting up the daily operation requirements liaison coordination platform.
▼On March 24, the occupancy rate of Xintian Fangcai Hospital was about 70%▼
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