Medical workers help residents get tested for the coronavirus at a temporary testing center in Hong Kong, March 14, 2022. (KIN CHEUNG / AP)

HONG KONG – The Hong Kong government detected 130 COVID-19 cases as it completed compulsory testing exercises in four “restricted areas” in Pok Fu Lam, Sham Shui Po, Lai Chi Kok and Sha Tin on Friday.

The government made restriction-testing declarations on Thursday to cover Wah King House of Wah Fu (II) Estate in Pok Fu Lam, Chak Tin House of Pak Tin Estate in Sham Shui Po, 1-3 Mount Sterling Mall at Mei Foo Sun Chuen Phase 7 in Lai Chi Kok, and Pok Yat House of Pok Hong Estate in Sha Tin, after the coronavirus was detected in sewage discharged from these blocks.

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At Wah King House where about 1,300 people took the testing, 52 positive COVID-19 cases and four indeterminate cases were detected.

Another 11 positive cases were identified at Chak Tin House, after 543 people had been tested.

A total of 277 people were tested at 1-3 Mount Sterling Mall, where 10 people were found positive for the virus.

At Pok Yat House, 57 out of 1,544 people tested positive. There were also 19 indeterminate cases.

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The Centre for Health Protection will follow up on the cases, the government added.