(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Hong Kong community testing speeds up Hong Kong people praise the mainland for supporting nucleic acid sampling

　　China News Agency, Hong Kong, February 24 (Reporter Wei Huadu) In order to help Hong Kong fight the fifth wave of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the mainland's anti-epidemic medical and epidemic prevention team arrived in Hong Kong in batches, and the 106 nucleic acid samples responsible for supporting community testing The team members have recently gone to work at major community testing stations to speed up the virus testing work in Hong Kong.

　　"The results will be available on the second day after the test and sampling! It's really fast!" Miss Yang, a Hong Kong citizen, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency on the 24th that her mother was unemployed due to the epidemic. The company requires employees to take regular COVID-19 tests and only return to work if the results are negative.

　　Miss Yang told reporters that her mother went for a virus test earlier, and it would take many days for the results to come out, and the results were not available for up to 6 days, which "very affected the start of work." On the 22nd, she accompanied her mother to Liang Xianli Yau Ma Tei Community Testing Center Doing nucleic acid testing and sampling, and seeing the mainland's anti-epidemic medical and epidemic prevention team in Hong Kong for the first time.

　　"I didn't know that they had gone to work in the community at the time, but I suddenly realized that the protective masks they were wearing had the logo of mainland universities." Miss Yang said: "Some of the inspectors' protective clothing has the word "China" written on it. It feels reassuring to get up.”

　　Miss Yang said that she and her mother spent about an hour and a half queuing for the test that day, but it saved a lot of time compared to the previous 4 hours.

Moreover, the test results were released soon. On the evening of the 23rd, my mother finally got a negative report and could continue to work.

Miss Yang said: "With the help of mainland medical staff, Hong Kong has also shown a 'China speed'. I believe that the epidemic will be brought under control in the near future."

　　In addition to Yau Tsim Mong District, this batch of nucleic acid sampling team members also stationed in community testing stations such as Yuen Long, North District and Ma On Shan, and related testing stations have also added testing stations to provide services for Hong Kong citizens who receive samples.

　　Ms. Ye, who lives in Ma'anshan and works in the medical technology industry, told reporters on the 24th that there were many confirmed cases in the building where she lived, and her family members were also initially diagnosed recently, so she needed to be tested for the virus.

On the afternoon of the 24th, Miss Ye went to the community testing center for nucleic acid sampling, and it took just over an hour to queue up to complete the sample collection.

　　"It took a lot of time to line up a few days ago, when it was freezing cold and raining, it was very uncomfortable." Miss Ye said, "With the support of mainland medical staff, the sampling speed of the testing center is much faster than before. See It is very inspiring that the mainland and Hong Kong are fighting the epidemic together."

　　Chen Zhaoshi, Director of the Food and Health Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, said recently that the testing personnel and equipment from the mainland to support Hong Kong have been put into operation, and two more Fire Eye laboratories will be put into operation soon. The daily testing capacity is expected to increase from 200,000 to at least 300,000.

In addition, the mainland is setting up the third batch of anti-epidemic medical and epidemic prevention teams to assist Hong Kong, which will also be mainly nucleic acid testing personnel.

　　Ms. Ye believes that this will help increase the daily testing volume in Hong Kong, and will also create good conditions for conducting nationwide testing in the future, so that Hong Kong can overcome the epidemic as soon as possible.

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