Compulsory testing notices issued for three commercial premises in Sai Kung Town

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The Centre for Health Protection has issued compulsory testing notices for three commercial premises in Sai Kung Town.

• Café@ WM, LG/F, WM Hotel, Sai Kung – 6 June 2022 07:30 ~ 09:30
• Kung Tsun, Shop 2, G/F, Block A, Sai Kung Building, 42-56 Fuk Man Road, Sai Kung – 5 June 2022 20:15 ~ 22:45
• Little Cove Espresso, Shop 1 and 2, G/F, Siu Yat Building, 1 Sai Kung Hoi Pong Square, Sai Kung – 5 June 2022 14:30 ~ 15:45

If you were at these premises on the date and during the times shown you must report for compulsory Covid-19 test on the following dates: 2022-06-11 or 2022-06-12.

The Government exercises the power under the Prevention and Control of Disease (Compulsory Testing for Certain Persons) Regulation (Cap. 599J) and publishes in the Gazette a compulsory testing notice, which requires any person who had been present at 38 specified places during the specified period (persons subject to compulsory testing) to undergo a COVID-19 nucleic acid test.

The Government strongly reminds members of the public to strictly follow the compulsory testing requirements and undergo testing on time as required. Mobile specimen collection stations have been set up by the Government in different districts to facilitate testing to be conducted in compliance with the compulsory testing notice. The above compulsory testing requirement applies to those who have completed a COVID-19 vaccination course as well.

Persons who have tested positive in the past three months (including positive cases tested either by nucleic acid tests recorded by the Department of Health (DH) or by rapid antigen tests (RATs) that have been self-declared to the DH) do not need to undergo compulsory testing. For those who are subject to compulsory testing (save for those who have declared their positive RAT results as mentioned above), they must undergo nucleic acid tests in accordance with relevant compulsory testing notices and cannot use RATs to fulfil the requirement of such notices. In other words, a negative RAT result cannot be deemed as fulfilling the compulsory testing requirement. Furthermore, unless a person subject to compulsory testing has obtained a medical certificate proving that he or she is unfit to undergo testing using a sample taken through combined nasal and throat swabs because of health reasons, the person cannot provide a deep throat saliva sample to fulfil the compulsory testing requirement.

Persons subject to compulsory testing in accordance with a compulsory testing notice must go to any of the mobile specimen collection stations, community testing centres (CTCs) or recognised local medical testing institutions to undergo professional swab sampling in fulfilling the requirements for compulsory testing. Young children may continue to undergo the test using a stool specimen. For details on obtaining stool specimen bottles, please refer to the COVID-19 thematic website: www.coronavirus.gov.hk/pdf/Stool_bottle_collection_points.pdf.