Some residents who were sent to Chai Wan have been moved again after staging a sit-in
Some of the Amoy Gardens residents who were moved from their quarantined apartments to holiday camps because of the atypical pneumonia outbreak were moved again yesterday, because they complained the lack of facilities at one of the camps posed a health hazard.
Two more camps were opened after more than 20 evacuees staged an overnight sit-in at the gate of Lei Yue Mun Park and Holiday Village in Chai Wan - one of the original two designated quarantine camps - and refused to move in. They cited fears that the living conditions represented a health risk.
The protesting residents were among the 239 tenants of Amoy Gardens' Block E, which the government ordered isolated for 10 days from Monday following a massive outbreak of atypical pneumonia in the building.
The government decided to move the residents to two quarantine camps on Tuesday night to allow health officials to thoroughly investigate their homes and other building facilities.
The removal operation was delayed for three hours on Tuesday night when some residents refused to move.
They were persuaded to move out by social workers, psychologists and police and the removal was completed at around 3am.