The Hong Kong government started distributing "epidemic prevention service packs" to all households in Hong Kong last week.
The Home Affairs Bureau stated that since April 2, the District Offices will distribute service packages to street sleepers through NGOs.
In Sham Shui Po and Yau Tsim Mong, where many street sleepers live, the District Office and NGOs sent staff to the gathering points of street sleepers in the district yesterday (April 4) to distribute service packs to them to encourage them to voluntarily carry out rapid detection.
Distributed to street sleepers at Lee Cheng Uk Playground and Tung Chau Street Park
The authorities said that the Sham Shui Po District Office distributed service packs to street sleepers in Sham Shui Po yesterday afternoon.
The authorities first sent the service packs to the Salvation Army office, and then, together with the person in charge of the Salvation Army's "Healthy Friends - Sham Shui Po Street Sleepers Health Support Project", visited Li Cheng Uk Playground and Tung Chau Street Park to distribute service packs to street sleepers.
The authorities stressed that Sham Shui Po District Office will continue to distribute epidemic prevention service kits to other street sleepers in the district through the assistance of the Salvation Army.
In addition, Yau Tsim Mong District Office also distributed service packs to street sleepers in the district last night.
Yau Tsim Mong District Officer Yu Kin-keung, Kowloon City and Yau Tsim Mong District Welfare Commissioner Zhang Zhiwen, and the Salvation Army Integrated Service Team for Street Sleepers, which is responsible for providing welfare support services for street sleepers in the district, went to the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui for street sleepers to distribute service packs.
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The authorities pointed out that the District Offices will continue to distribute anti-epidemic service kits through various channels, and called on the public to use the rapid antigen test kits for self-testing every day from April 8 to 10, so as to achieve "early detection" of anti-epidemic drugs. The target of the epidemic is to cut off the chain of community transmission as soon as possible.
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