The Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yeut-ngor has said the universal community testing scheme was a huge success even though just less than a quarter of the population have got tested, RTHK reports. "To have 1.78 million voluntarily take part in a massive testing program is a very good result," she said, saying that the scheme succeeded in helping the authorities find asymptomatic carriers of the virus. "When we started to launch this program, there was a lot of smearing, badmouthing about the Covid-19 test, about the possible infections and this and that. So people could have fear and anxiety about subjecting themselves to a Covid-19 test," she said. “The great majority of reaction that I have heard is 'it’s very simple', 'it is very safe', 'it doesn’t hurt me at all'.

Source: The Standard September 15, 2020 03:22 UTC