More Public Services Disrupted By Covid

More government services were disrupted on Thursday as staff came down with the coronavirus.

The Land Registry’s customer centre in Admiralty was closed for the day after the test result of a worker there came back preliminary positive.

Limited services, like land searches and deeds registration, were available either online or at other offices of the registry.

The centre on the 19th floor of the Queensway Government Offices was to reopen on Friday.

Meanwhile, the Medical Social Services Unit of the East Kowloon Psychiatric Centre was also closed for disinfection after one of its workers tested positive.

The unit said all Social Welfare Department workers on the same floor were to be tested and would work from home for the time being.

Reopening arrangements were to be announced later.

Other government workers who tested positive or preliminary positive for Covid included two employees of the Housing Department and the Marine Department.

The government said their jobs do not involve contact with the public.