The Government requires any person who had been present at 40 specified places during the specified period to undergo a COVID-19 nucleic acid test.
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 that have been self-declared to the DH) do not need to undergo compulsory testing.
The Government has set up a new regular community testing station at the basketball court next to Wang Lai House of Wang Tau Hom Estate in Lok Fu (near Lung Cheung Road and Tin Ma Court) for convenient testing by members of the public of Lok Fu and Kowloon Tong area. The service period of the ad-hoc mobile specimen collection station at On Yam Estate in Kwai Chung will be extended to December 10.
Ad-hoc mobile specimen collection stations in various districts providing services (as at December 9)Please refer to the press release for detailsIn order to fight the coronavirus epidemic, the Government has been collecting sewage samples for virus testing in all districts, and had detected positive results in some areas, indicating that there may be hidden cases in the premises within these areas.
Please refer to the press release for details