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Mainland experts inspect quarantine hotel and community testing center
A delegation of mainland health officials inspected a Wan Chai quarantine hotel and Yau Ma Tei community testing center on the third day of their visit on Monday to assess Hong Kong’s Covid-19 control measures.
The Centre for Health Protection’s head of communicable disease, Chuang Shuk-kwan, accompanied the experts to Dorsett Wanchai to inspect the quarantine arrangements for the city’s overseas arrivals.
They also visited the community testing center at Henry G Leong Yau Ma Tei Community Centre, where residents can receive Covid-19 tests.
The mainland officials then went to private laboratory BGI in Tai Po, accompanied by its chairman, Anthony Wu Ting-yuk, to see its operations.
They also inspected Tin Shui Wai Hospital and the Tin Shui Wai (Tin Yip Road) Community Health Centre.
The experts include the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office’s Liu Wenda; the National Health Commission’s He Qinghua; He Jianfeng of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Guangdong; and Guan Xiangdong of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University.
The delegation visited the airport, the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre, Penny’s Bay Quarantine Centre and the Hong Kong port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge border control point on Sunday.
They also visited the community testing center at Henry G Leong Yau Ma Tei Community Centre, where residents can receive Covid-19 tests.
The mainland officials then went to private laboratory BGI in Tai Po, accompanied by its chairman, Anthony Wu Ting-yuk, to see its operations.
They also inspected Tin Shui Wai Hospital and the Tin Shui Wai (Tin Yip Road) Community Health Centre.
The experts include the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office’s Liu Wenda; the National Health Commission’s He Qinghua; He Jianfeng of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Guangdong; and Guan Xiangdong of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University.
The delegation visited the airport, the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre, Penny’s Bay Quarantine Centre and the Hong Kong port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge border control point on Sunday.
