Outside Woosung Street Cooked Food Market.

Supplies have been moved it for rumoured community lockdown around the Jordan for compulsory #COVID19 test aiming to clear spiking infection in the area.

While residents are still playing chess around.
Another trunk of bread moving into the cooked food market
Waster workers in full PPE
Evacuation of Kensington Plaza on the way
Medical staffers waiting in van with PPE and N95 mask
Residents escorted out from building to quarantine camp after vertical infection due to pipe design error and leakage
Police stating to cordon to presume lockdown area
Tents rising and presuming checkpoints
#COVID19 Mobile sample collection point arrived in lockdown area
Police tactics units arriving at the scene
Another border checkpoint at Canton Road
Staffers entering Yau Tsim Mong Multicultural Activity Centre for lockdown administrations
Street cleaners said they were told to wear PPE today
Govt and Police told shops the area will lockdown at 4AM
Lockdown kind of started. Cars inside the area unattended are being removed.
We were told to leave by 4am or will be quarantined for 14 DAYS. Staffs are not even sure if the lockdown will uphold for 14 DAYS or 2 Days as rumoured.
Some people are leaving, some police are evading how shall we stay or leave and told us to wait for Home Affairs Office to arrive
Correction Service arrived for logistic support
Multiple departments sending trunks in
Staffs telling restaurants to close
And a cutie bag!
Lockdown kickstarts.
The declaration of lockdown - without stating the number of days nor how people could leave
Installing electric gates
Looks like lockdown now
Marching in
The scene was so familiar - like movie scene “The Midnight after”
We journalists were pushed back into a convenient store and got surrounded by police ...
Before that, the sample collection booths.
A view from hotel inside the lockdown area - Yes we are staying inside probably for days
The test has started and residents now queuing up
Sun has risen and the queue is gone?
Residents taking #covid19 tests and supplies afterwards
Residents are taking diversion cards to take test in rounds
Peeping out
Endless waiting
Glimpse of lines
Taking swabs
Causal scenes: Volunteers, esp. ethnic minorities would need our support to get through this #covid19 hurdle together.

We are all #Hongkongers working to make this place better.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam just walked into the lockdown area. Someone was chanting something but we cannot hear the content.
It’s time for soup party! 🤡
Good night all. This concludes the first day of lockdown
Oops I missed out the empty test stalls!
Good morning, logistics are removing some testing tents now as 6900 pax has tested inside the lockdown area
Supply station were removed too
Turns out to be moving them to another block and still very noisy downstairs
We were now told only one block will remain mobile #covid19 testing truck and others area’s tent will be removed.

While we cannot go out today, all supplies will be then provided by govt.
Life on rooftop
Another day of lockdown - while today you can’t go out at last
Spotted some health workers in PPE to a house
Meow.
Show me love
Happy dad and kid
Cheering up each other
Pepe Kid
Almost empty streets now
Staffers taking group photos
Last minute sensitivity of adding back pork labels
He really said “恭喜發財!”
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