Authorities setting more traps, strengthening disinfection, among other measures, at housing estate, hospital in patient’s local district
Hong Kong authorities have stepped up mosquito control measures at a hospital and the neighbourhood where the city’s first imported case of chikungunya fever since 2019 was reported.
The Housing Authority and the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department stepped up anti-mosquito efforts at Kwun Tong’s On Tat Estate and United Christian Hospital over the weekend.
The measures include setting up more traps, applying larvicidal oil in breeding spots, clearing stagnant water and grass near drainage holes, strengthening disinfection and conducting outreach efforts to remind residents to clean water from flower pots.
Authorities confirmed that a 12-year-old boy living on the estate had contracted chikungunya, a mosquito-borne disease behind outbreaks in neighbouring Guangdong province.
