A resident of a Kwai Chung block placed under lockdown said people were desperate seeing the five-day lockdown getting extended, saying they were fighting the epidemic with their backs to the wall. Speaking on a radio program on Wednesday, a resident staying at Yat Kwai House of Kwai Chung Estate said he worried the lockdown extension could turn the building into a “cage fight”, increasing their risk of infection. A Kwai Tsing community group interviewed around 200 Kwai Chung Estate residents, where the residents said they hope authorities could arrange door-to-door Covid testing, citing the bad sanitary conditions in the building. Meanwhile, respiratory expert Leung Chi-chiu said residents living in Yat Kwai House - where more than 210 cases were detected - should be locked down for 14 days. He also called on companies to allow their staff to work from home, in view of the untraceable Covid cases spreading to different parts of the city.

Source: The Standard January 26, 2022 06:07 UTC