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Compulsory testing | Zeng 25 Building Bokang Village, Mountain View Village, Yaodong Village, etc. have been on the list for two consecutive days

2022-04-01T13:18:37.847Z


The new crown pneumonia in Hong Kong continues, and confirmed cases have also been reported in various districts. The Food and Health Bureau issued a mandatory testing announcement tonight (1st), and 25 buildings were included in the announcement. All of the listings are public housing or HOS housing, and each district is Zhongsha


The new crown pneumonia in Hong Kong continues, and confirmed cases have also been reported in various districts.

The Food and Health Bureau issued a mandatory testing announcement tonight (1st), and 25 buildings were included in the announcement.

All of them are public housing or HOS housing. There are five buildings in Shatin in each district, which continues to be the "hardest-hit area". Buildings on the list are the top of the 18 districts, including Pok Tai House, Pok Hong Estate, Shatin and Mei Tao, Mei Lam Estate, Tai Wai. Buildings, etc.; the others included in the announcement include Kwai Yu House, Kwai Chun Court, Kwai Chung, Ming Yan House, Ming Ya Court, Tai Po, Bai Xue House, Choi Hung Village, Ngau Chi Wan, etc.

In addition, buildings such as Pok Hong Village, Shan Shan Village and Leung King Village in Tuen Mun, and Yiu Tung Village in Shau Kei Wan have been included in the announcement for two consecutive days.


The announcement stated that anyone who has stayed in the listed buildings for more than two hours from March 19 to April 1 must undergo nucleic acid testing from Saturday (2nd) to Sunday (3rd).


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In response to multiple positive test cases, 25 specified places were included in the mandatory testing notice today.

The authorities pointed out that if between March 19 and April 1, if you have been in the building on the notice for more than two hours, you need to be tested between April 2 and April 3.

Buildings on the list include 21 public housing and four HOS flats. Shatin has the largest number of listed buildings in all districts with five, including Pok Tai House, Pok Hong Estate, Sha Tin, Hong Wo House, Wo Che Estate, and Hang Fung, Heng On Estate, Ma On Shan. Building, Mei To House, Mei Lam Estate, Tai Wai, and San Ming House, San Chui Estate.

Among them, Bokang Village has been on the list for two consecutive days, and since the announcement of the resumption of mandatory testing on March 22, three buildings have been on the list.

The remaining buildings in New Territories West include Tsui Wo House, Tai Wo Estate, Tai Po, Ching Yu House, Ching Ho Estate, Sheung Shui, and Sheung Yi House, Sheung Tak Estate, Tseung Kwan O.

▼On April 1, the fifth and sixth blocks of Regent Garden in Kowloon Bay will be closed for inspection▼


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4 buildings including Shek Yin East Village, Kwai Tsing District are on the list

In the western New Territories, Kwai Tsing District has four buildings on the list, the second most among the 18 districts, including Yam Yu House, Shek Yam East Estate, Kwai Chung, Lai Choi House, Lai Yan Court, Kwai Yu House, Kwai Chun Court, and Tsing Chung House, Cheung Ching Estate, Tsing Yi. .

In addition, three buildings in Tuen Mun have also been included in the mandatory inspection announcement, including King On House and Leung Chun House in Leung King Estate, which have been on the list for two consecutive days, and Chun Tin House in Yan Tin Village.

In Kowloon, there are also three buildings in Kwun Tong, including Kwai Yuet House in Ngau Tau Kok Lower Estate, Ping Yan House in Ping Tin Estate in Lam Tin, and Sau Lok House in Sau Mau Ping Estate in Sau Mau Ping.

The rest of the buildings included in the mandatory inspection announcement include Tak Shui House, Tak Long Estate, Kowloon City, and Bai Xue House, Choi Hung Estate, Ngau Chi Wan.

On Hong Kong Island, one building continued to be included in the list, which is Yiu Wah Building in Yiu Tung Estate, Shau Kei Wan.

▼From March 22, the mandatory inspection announcement will be listed on the list▼


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Those who have tested positive in the past three months will not be required to undergo mandatory testing, authorities said.

Those who are required to undergo compulsory testing must go to mobile sampling stations, community testing centers or accredited local medical testing institutions for professional swab sampling and testing, while young children can continue to be tested with stool samples.

Authorities stressed that citizens cannot use rapid antigen tests.

▼Mobile sampling stations providing services to the public in various districts on April 1▼


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In addition, the authorities stressed that they will continue to make every effort to trace people who have been to the relevant places and may be infected, and will seriously follow up whether the relevant people have complied with the test announcement.

Any relevant person who fails to comply with the test notice commits an offence and is liable to a maximum fine of $25,000 and six months' imprisonment upon conviction.

The person concerned may also receive a compulsory testing order requiring the person to undergo a test within a specified period. Failure to comply with the compulsory testing order is punishable by a fine of $50,000 and imprisonment for six months.

▼On April 1, Cuifu Building, Cuifu Building, Cuiwan Village, Chaiwan was closed and inspected ▼


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Mandatory testing | 25 buildings were added to the list for the first time after the restart. Shatin accounted for five buildings in Shajiao Village and Lee On Village. Refers to a fine of $25,000 for failing to comply with the mandatory testing warnings | Add 20 buildings to Shebokang Village, Shun'an Village and other Daxing Villages, and a total of five buildings on the list for mandatory testing | Increase to 20 buildings Sheshajiao Village, Xiaoxi Mandatory testing of Wan Village, Tong Ming Court and Tai Hing Village | Building 15, Tsuen Wan Hao Fai Garden, has been re-launched as the first private building to be listed in the past six days

Source: hk1

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