InquiryhotlineonCOVID19forexpatsannounced
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于2022年04月23日发表
From: Shenzhen Daily
Updated: 2022-02-23 09:02
Shekou Management and Service Center for Expats (SMSCE) has announced that its hotline 2667-8381 is now available for expats to inquire about the latest COVID-19 information, after Nanshan District unveiled tighter prevention and control measures Monday in Shekou Subdistrict due to the misbehavior of a Hong Kong trucker who tested positive for the virus.
According to the authorities, around 2,000 people, including some expats, living in Dongjiaotou were affected.
“We have shared the latest information in English as well as today’s Shenzhen Daily report among the expat residents in neighborhoods,” Yang Yan, director of SMSCE, said at an interview yesterday.
The Chinese-language service hotline 2682-0621, announced by Nanshan’s COVID-19 prevention and control headquarters, received many inquiries early yesterday.
“Many inquiries were about if people can go out to work and what is a lockdown area, control area and prevention area,” a Dongjiaotou community worker said yesterday.
According to the notice announced by the district government, Building 5 in Yonglexincun has been designated as a lockdown area, where residents must stay at home and door-to-door delivery service is provided. Residents must undergo a nucleic acid test once a day. Other buildings in Yonglexincun are the control area, where residents must stay in the residential compound and avoid gatherings. Residents are required to undergo nucleic acid tests twice in three days. In the prevention area, gatherings are strictly restricted with anti-COVID measures in place.
Despite not living in Shekou’s lockdown and control areas, Spanish Juan Gibert had to work from home to accompany his son, who has to take online classes at home. Gibert has been undergoing nucleic acid tests quite often in the recent week — twice in three days.
“We have learned about COVID-19 in Shekou in WeChat groups. I think all prevention measures are fine, though in some situations they make life difficult,” he said.
Gibert hoped schools to open soon because if children are kept at home for long, it negatively affects their development and mental health.
Nagpal Singh, an Indian who has been living in Shenzhen for 10 years and works as a manager in an Indian restaurant in Shekou, thinks life in China is quite free, safe and normal, although travel between the two countries has been difficult because of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Nanshan police said yesterday the Hong Kong truck driver, surnamed Huang, who had violated epidemic prevention rules, has been put under investigation. The 38-year-old illegally contacted a mainland driver surnamed Zheng outside a designated shipment place. Huang also didn’t stay in the designated hostel after crossing the border into Shenzhen on Sunday night.
