Hong Kong authorities will shorten the quarantine period for residents and employees of care homes for the elderly and disabled, as isolation facilities could soon be full, according to the labour and welfare chief.
Writing on his official blog on Sunday, Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong said that in the past week, the Social Welfare Department had started giving out rapid test kits to employees of care homes for the elderly and disabled so that they could test themselves at three-day intervals, and help protect the health and safety of those in their care.
“We are no longer just preventing infection and fighting the coronavirus. This is a battle in which every life matters. I strongly believe that we can stand united in winning this war,” he wrote.
Currently, close contacts of infected care home residents or employees have to spend two weeks at the AsiaWorld-Expo quarantine facility.
Law said the department had originally planned to double quarantine places at the facility from 320 to 640, but that he believed they would be filled quickly, with Hong Kong having recorded a daily caseload of more than 1,000 in recent days.
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