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Appointment for nucleic acid testing|18 testing sites with low flow of people

2023-01-19T07:22:43.765Z


Hong Kong and the mainland have resumed customs clearance. Hong Kong people need to pay for a 48-hour nucleic acid test at their own expense when going north, and get a negative result. At present, the community testing center offers a service of 240 yuan or 150 yuan, and the report is issued within 12 hours or 24 hours respectively


Hong Kong and the mainland have resumed customs clearance. Hong Kong people need to pay for a 48-hour nucleic acid test at their own expense and obtain a negative result. At present, the community testing center offers a service of 240 yuan or 150 yuan, and the report is issued within 12 hours or 24 hours respectively.


As the Lunar New Year is approaching, there are long queues at many community testing stations in Hong Kong.

The website of the Community Testing Center has added "Testing Points with Less People Flow". This morning (19th) due to the large number of people being tested, there were only 10 testing centers with less flow of people in Hong Kong, including Siu Sai Wan Community Hall in Hong Kong Island District, Kowloon District To Kwa Wan Sports Center, Yata Street Temporary Playground in Yau Ma Tei, Wo Hing Community Hall in Fanling, New Territories, Tai Wo Hau Community Center, etc., but by 1:30 noon, the number of centers with sufficient testing places had increased to 18, including the New Territories West has a maximum of 8.

The government strongly recommends that testers should first check the latest appointment status of different testing centers or testing stations online, and make an appointment online before testing.


The latest appointment status of community testing centers and testing stations

View low-traffic testing stations

▼On January 17, there was a long queue at the MacPherson Testing Station in Mong Kok▼


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According to the “Testing Points with Lesser Traffic” on the website of the Community Testing Center, as of 1:30 p.m., the following community testing centers/testing stations had less people flow:

Hong Kong Island


Yee Shing Street, Chai Wan (Basketball Courts No. 1 and No. 2)

Siu Sai Wan Community Hall

Lee Tung Community Hall (near Lee Tung Station Exit B)

Kowloon


To Kwa Wan Sports Center (near To Kwa Wan Station Exit A)

Yau Ma Tei Yata Street Temporary Playground (near Exit C of Yau Ma Tei Station)

Argyle Street Playground, Kowloon City (near Sung Wong Toi Station Exit B1)

New Territories East


Fanling Wo Hing Community Hall

Under the Canopy of Po Wing Road Playground, Sheung Shui

Basketball court of Tai Po Community Center, 2 Heung Sze Hui Street (near Exit A of Tai Po Market Station)

Wo Liu Hang Road, Fo Tan, near Wo Liu Hang Playground (near Exit D, Fo Tan Station)

New Territories West New Territories West


Tin Pak Road Park, Tin Shui Wai

Tai Wo Hau Community Center

Kwai Chung New District Park (near Kwai Hing Station Exit D)

Hing Fong Road Playground Hard Soccer Pitch (near Kwai Fong Station Exit D)

Shek Pai Street Park, Kwai Chung

Tsing Yi Cheung Fat Community Center

Open space outside Tsing Yi Swimming Pool (near Exit C of Tsing Yi Station)

Lai King Community Hall (near Lai King Station Exit A)

▼On January 17, more than 100 people lined up at the Tsuen Wan Town Hall Testing Station▼


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In addition, the government announced the list of testing centers/testing stations that are full today. People who have not made an appointment will not receive services. Therefore, those who have not made an appointment should not go to these testing centers/testing stations today.

List of testing centers/testing stations with full testing quota today:


Wan Chai Leighton Hill Community Hall

Kennedy Town Community Complex

Edinburgh Place, Central

Southorn Playground

North Point Car Ferry Pier Playground

West Lake Playground

Victoria Park Music Pavilion

Sham Shui Po Pak Tin Community Hall

Maple Street Playground

Macpherson Playground Basketball Court

Ho Man Tin Park

Yau Tong Community Hall

Kwun Tong Ngau Tau Kok Road Sports Center

Sau Ming Road Park, Kwun Tong

Basketball court next to Huangshi Building, Ping Shek Village

Lam Tin Service Reservoir Playground

Kwun Tong Playground, 6 Tsui Ping Road

Kowloon Park Mini-Soccer Pitch

Beech Street, Tai Kok Tsui

Tai Po Tai Wo Sports Center

Tai Po Central Plaza

Ma On Shan Recreation Ground Hard Surface Soccer Pitch

Wu Kai Sha Station Public Transport Interchange

Sha Tin Lek Yuen Community Hall

Sha Tin Town Hall Plaza

Che Kung Temple Gymnasium Open Space

Luen Wo Hui Playground

Sheung Shui Bike Junction Center

▼High-speed rail opens to traffic▼


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A government spokesperson emphasized that the testing capacity is sufficient and sufficient to meet the needs of people passing through the border at the end of the year.

As of 1:30 pm today, there are still about 44,000, 78,000, and 95,000 test appointments in community testing centers/stations in Hong Kong today, tomorrow (20th) and the day after tomorrow (21st), respectively.

Due to the concentration of people who need to be tested at individual testing centers and testing stations, as well as sampling during certain peak hours, and a large number of people who need to be tested without an appointment, they go to the testing centers and testing stations with a lot of traffic during the evening peak hours to wait. , leading to long queues and long waiting times at individual testing centers and testing stations.

The government pointed out that yesterday (18th) and the day before yesterday (17th) there were still more than 60,000 unused test quotas per day in the community testing centers/testing stations in Hong Kong. Testing Center/Testing Station.

In order to meet the testing needs of the public, some busy community testing centers/testing stations have strengthened their manpower and added registration/sampling counters.

However, in recent days, about 30% to 50% of the testers, equivalent to about 30,000 people go to the waiting list for testing without an appointment every day. become.

The government reminds citizens that they can go to community testing centers and community testing stations in various districts for testing: https://www.communitytest.gov.hk/zh-HK/info.

In order to minimize the waiting time, the government strongly recommends testers to check the latest appointment status of different testing centers/testing stations online: https://booking.communitytest.gov.hk/zh-HK/, and choose the nearest one with less traffic Testing center/testing station for testing.

If the self-paid services of individual testing centers/testing stations are full on the day, testers can choose to go to other testing centers/testing stations for testing.

Members of the public are advised to pre-book testing service slots online to ensure timely testing: https://booking.communitytest.gov.hk/form/index_tc.jsp.

Are community testing centers open for Chinese New Year?

More than 80 community testing centers and testing stations in various districts in Hong Kong will operate as usual during the Lunar New Year period, and the service hours will remain unchanged

How much does the community testing center charge?

"Standard Self-Pay Service" (receive results within 24 hours) is capped at RMB 150, and "Express Self-Pay Service" (receive results within 12 hours) is capped at $240

epidemic.

Latest|Li Jiachao: From 1.30 onwards, the Medical and Health Bureau announced the details of the isolation order for confirmed cases in the afternoon Nucleic acid testing for children coming to Hong Kong from the Mainland is also exempted from nucleic acid testing centers|Lunar New Year will operate as usual for the next three days with a daily quota of 90,000 people to promote advance appointments for nucleic acid testing centers|Mongkok, Tsuen Wan and other testing stations have long queues. Contractors say most of the appointments are full. From March to April, the quarantine order was lifted and Liang Zichao was canceled after the Spring Festival: stop testing step by step

Source: hk1

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