DAB Wants Virus Tests Extended To Tuen Mun Area

The pro-Beijing DAB party has urged the government to test Tuen Mun residents for Covid-19, after officials announced a testing scheme for another outbreak hotspot – Tsz Wan Shan's public housing estates.

Tuen Man had seen two major clusters develop as the new wave of Covid cases started hitting the city from early this month.

While a cluster linked to the Cornwall elderly care home saw about two dozen people getting Covid, over 40 new cases were linked to the Fu Lum Restaurant in Tuen Mun.

DAB chairwoman Starry Lee said people’s health should be a priority and the government should spare no effort in curbing the spread.

Her colleague Holden Chow said health experts should be dispatched to Tuen Man area to run coronavirus tests on residents there.

“We have seen a lot of confirmed cases in Tuen Mun, so Tuen Mun actually deserves a team of medical practitioners to go out and do all the testing for the Tuen Mun residents.”

“These days I have been around in the Tuen Mun area and we have seen that those confirmed cases and people [there] have grave concern. So if they could assign a team of medical practitioners to carry on with the testing in Tsz Wan Shan, why don't they assign another team of specialists to carry out the testing for Tuen Mun residents?” he asked.

Elizabeth Quat added the government should ask the mainland to send medical practitioners and equipment to the SAR's hospitals to help contain the outbreak here.

She said opponents of this proposal are putting politics before people's lives.