The government has set up a testing station in the stadium near Yat Kwai Building. At about 11:00 in the morning, hundreds of citizens lined up to be tested, filling the entire stadium. Mr. Huang and Mrs. Huang, who lived on the 28th floor of Yat Kwai Building, were tested at about 10:00 in the morning. Both of them said that they did not know that they had to take samples before leaving. They described that the lobby of the building was still in and out, and no one had checked the residents’ test records. Mrs. Huang estimated that a large number of residents who went to work this morning left without taking samples. She felt that it was unfair to the residents who had followed the regulations and tested first. She believed that personnel should be arranged to “guard the door.” Mr. Huang was worried that the arrangement this morning would be chaotic, and he was worried that some positive cases had leaked into the community. Mrs. Huang expressed her support for the 3-day ban, agreeing that short-term pain is worse than long-term pain, and did not want the building to continue to erupt.
Regarding Xu Le, director of the Centre for Health Protection, who insisted that it was an expert team who believed that the residents of Yikui Building did not need to be evacuated, Leung Cheuk-wai, a government expert advisor and dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, said that no government personnel have consulted him since last night (20th) and today. If you ask him, He believes that “home quarantine is absolutely necessary for the first time”, and pointed out that this kind of containment action was implemented as early as May 1, 2009, when the swine flu hit Hong Kong, when the Metropark Hotel was closed.
Leung Cheuk-wai continued that he was astonished to learn from the news last night that residents of the building did not have to wait for the test results to enter and exit by themselves. He questioned how to persuade the public authorities to use the same public health standard to make a decision to humanely deal with 2,000 hamsters suspected of being tested for Delta. But more than 2,000 residents at risk of contracting Omicron can continue to operate in the community.
Some residents worry about affecting security work
Mr. Huang, a resident who works as a security guard, said that he took a leave of absence today for a test. He believed that it would affect his work if he had to have a negative result in the next few days, because he had to go out at about 6 o’clock every morning. He said that the company has arranged for him to take a holiday in the next few days, but he is worried that the government will extend the testing arrangement because the source cannot be found, which will affect his income at that time, so he has no choice but to accept it.
The resident student Chen said that it felt “outrageous” that more than 10 cases of infection occurred in the building. He had not been vaccinated against the new crown, and no one asked for the test results when he went out this morning.
The resident Mr. Pan expressed concern, but he had no choice. He had to show the test report when he went out this morning, but he would not follow the call to wear two masks because it was too urgent.
The resident Zhen Tai said that her son did not have a test report at school this morning, but the school asked him to test before returning to school. She brought a “disinfection gun” and waited for her son downstairs, and sprayed disinfectant before going upstairs. She has now stopped work and went out as little as possible, hoping that the virus will not spread again.
Some residents put on raincoats for protection when they went out, and some cleaners cleaned the open space outside the building and the iron gates of the building, and cleaned the rubbish on the canopies. Another resident said that the improper closure measures have led to the outbreak of new coronavirus infections in many districts, and they have “endured it for three years without speaking out.”