The Mainland expert delegation led by National Health Commission COVID-19 leading task force head Prof Liang Wannian today viewed some of the city’s anti-epidemic facilities.

Accompanied by Secretary for Food & Health Prof Sophia Chan, Prof Liang and some members of the delegation started their itinerary at the community testing centre at To Kwa Wan Sports Centre to learn about its operation, service arrangements and specimen collection process, and view how Hong Kong works towards early identification of COVID-19 patients through an extensive network of service points for testing.

They then visited the community isolation facility in Tsing Yi with Secretary for Security Tang Ping-keung, and received a briefing on its operation as well as Hong Kong’s community isolation strategy.

The rest of the expert delegation called on the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre, followed by an inspection of the community treatment and isolation facilities at AsiaWorld-Expo to learn about how they are run.

Prof Chan said: “The Mainland expert delegation led by Prof Liang, together with the task force of Mainland epidemiologists and the Guangdong COVID-19 medical expert delegation that had arrived in Hong Kong, provided us with valuable advice.

“The guidance offered in respect of the actual situation in Hong Kong by the delegation helped the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government to analyse the epidemic development and reinforce the measures in early identification, early isolation and early treatment. That is one of the key areas of support extended by the central government to Hong Kong.”