The queue for testing

Little adventure for me today. I was summoned for a mandatory COVID-19 swab test because I walked through the shopping mall in Tung Chung and had a bite to eat there just after I had my 2nd Covid jab done almost three weeks ago. 

It’s a long story but it appears that this shopping mall is the connection between three cases of the N501Y variant that have popped up in Hong Kong in the last couple of weeks. Over a thousand people who live in the same block as one of the people who tested positive have been sent to a quarantine camp, vaxxed or otherwise. And today a testing order was sent out to everyone who was in this mall in the sixteen days between April 10th and April 26th, unless they had their 2nd vaccination before 9th April. This potentially means thousands of people need to be tested before May 7th or face a big fine so I thought it was as well to get it done quickly.

I waited an hour in the queue, people watching to pass the time. The actual swab test took about two minutes and didn’t hurt at all. And I didn’t throw up!

I did take this with a wider angle lens but I’m not sure whether it shows or whether it counts for Wide Wednesday and, being quite small, I snapped it above my head so I don’t know why the woman on the left is looking at the camera like that. Notice, also, the pigeon surveying the scene.