Health

Anger as Hong Kong orders compulsory Covid tests for city’s 370,000 domestic workers amid mutant strain fears


Domestic worker activists have slammed as “stigmatising” a government order that all of Hong Kong’s 370,000-odd foreign domestic workers undergo compulsory coronavirus tests by next Sunday after a single worker was diagnosed with two mutant strains.

The controversial move by officials came on Friday after a 39-year-old foreign domestic worker was confirmed to be carrying the coronavirus N501Y and E484K strains on Thursday.

Law enforcement personnel distribute leaflets on coronavirus to domestic workers. Photo: GovHK.

The patient did not have any recent travel history, meaning that she was the first locally transmitted case found to be carrying mutant strains. The origin of the infection is still unclear.





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