Lockdown declared in Kai Tak, Sai Ying Pun, Wong Tai Sin and Sham Shui Po

Government has declared lockdown in Kai Tak, Sai Ying Pun, Wong Tai Sin and Sham Shui Po on Friday night, asking residents there to stay home and undergo compulsory testing.

The lockdowns are expected to be lifted between 7am and 7.30am on Saturday.

The buildings locked down tonight included:

- Blocks 1 to 3 and 5 to 9 of K. City on Muk Ning Street in Kai Tak;

- Tower 1 of Yuk Ming Towers on Third Street in Sai Ying Pun;

- Block 14 of Tsui Chuk Garden in Wong Tai Sin;

- No. 107-131 Apliu Street (odd numbers);

- No. 11-17 Shek Kip Mei Street (odd numbers);

- No. 140-164 Yu Chau Street (even numbers);

- No. 112-126 Nam Cheong Street (even numbers);

- No. 195-223A Tai Nan Street (odd numbers);

- No. 1F Shek Kip Mei Street,

- No. 238-272 Lai Chi Kok Road (even numbers); and

- No. 66-72 Nam Cheong Street (even numbers).

Residents in these four districts must undergo testing tonight. Vaccinated citizens and those who had tested negative recently must undergo testing again as a mutant strain is involved.

People who had been to these buildings during specific dates must undergo testing as well:

- K. City between Jan 22 and Feb 4

- Yuk Ming Tower between Jan 26 and Feb 4

- Tsui Chuk Garden between Jan 19 and Feb 4

- Buildings in Sham Shui Po between Jan 22 and Feb 4

They must take the Covid tests by Sunday (Feb 6).

The blocks in Kai Tak were locked down because the sewage samples discharged from there tested positive for Covid-19, a government spokesman said, suspecting that there are asymptomatic patients.

Regarding the Sai Ying Pun lockdown, the spokesman explained that some residents there have tested positive for Covid-19 and carried a mutant strain.