A team of emergency workers has been mobilised to assist residents locked down in Weng Heng Building in Fai Chi Kei yesterday after a female resident tested positive for Covid-19.
The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said the team conducted household surveys in the Red Zone building to assess the actual number of residents and their basic needs to provide necessities.
Around 70 school or university students and teachers are living in the Red Zone. The Education Bureau said that arrangements will be made for them to have online classes.
The emergency team is made up of Public Security Police (PSP) officers and IAM and Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) officials.
The bureau is also providing assistance to the Health Bureau (SSM) in arranging for the building’s residents’ nucleic acid tests (NATs). Staff in protective clothing will record information including contact numbers and the number of seniors and people with special needs per household.
The staff will also distribute leaflets to the households about various measures, arrangements and emergency contact information during the lockdown period. Residents have been told to have their Macao Health Codes and required registration information ready for a smoother process.
IAM officials yesterday provided each household with emergency food packs and will distribute food packs with vegetables and frozen meat starting today. Hot-boxed meals will also be provided.
Aside from completing disinfection works, the bureau has also set up a temporary NAT station and “front-line coordination station” in its prevention and control area to facilitate NAT screening and the SSM’s follow-up work, The Macau Post Daily reported.
