The second phase of the “Vaccination Pass” came into effect last Saturday (April 30). The public must receive 2 doses of the vaccine before they can enter the restaurants and other scheduled premises, but those who are not vaccinated in Hong Kong must go through 18 Designated post offices applied for a “temporary vaccine pass”, resulting in long queues of post offices in many districts that have not opened their doors recently. This morning (6th), outside the Wanchai Post Office, a large number of people continued to queue up to receive the number. The post office will distribute 150 “same-day chips” this morning. The mainlanders in the top line said that they had arrived at 5:00 in the morning.
The chairman of the Hong Kong Post Office Staff Union, Cheuk Shin said in a radio program that most of the designated post offices have recently experienced applicant dragons, and the most serious ones are Seven Sisters Road in North Point and the General Post Office in Central. The number of daily donations depends on the size of individual post offices. The counters have been fully opened for processing. We are worried that the relevant applications will increase the workload of the front-line and affect the daily posting services of the public. Even if the manpower is increased, it will not help to speed up the processing, or overtime will be required.
Member Zhang Xinyu said that the work affected the service of the post office itself, and believed that the government should not pass the burden on to the post office. He also pointed out that the government launched an online declaration platform about six months ago, and there should be no technical problems. It is estimated that it will take a few days to re-launch the relevant platform.