Hong Kong has locked down a densely populated neighborhood and ordered compulsory COVID-19 testing. Some 10 thousand residents of the Kowloon peninsula are affected. The government says people must stay at home until everyone has been tested.
People living in 30 buildings bordered by Nathan Road, Jordan Road, Ferry Street and Kansu Street were also ordered to undergo screening previously.
Authorities on Monday added seven more buildings in the area to the list – at 170-174 and 184-186 Shanghai street; 18 Reclamation Street; 28-34 Battery Street; 163 and 230-236 Temple Street; and 542 Canton Road. The order came after at least one infection was discovered in each building.
According to Chuang, about 160 of the 661 local cases recorded since January 4 involved residents living in Yau Tsim Mong, while a quarter involved members of ethnic minority communities, most of them Nepalese but some were Indian. The district is home to 9.1 per cent of the city’s roughly 580,000 members of ethnic minority communities, data from a by-census in 2016 shows.
HONG KONG (China Daily/ANN): A total of over 35,000 persons who were required to undergo compulsory testing for Covid-19 have availed of the tests provided by the government as of Saturday, the Home Affairs Department (HAD) said.