Secretary for Environment & Ecology Tse Chin-wan, accompanied by Director of Food & Environmental Hygiene Donald Ng, today inspected enhanced preventive work to combat chikungunya fever at Fung Tak Estate in Wong Tai Sin and the surrounding area.

Mr Tse was informed that officers from the Food & Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) had investigated the vicinity of the first local chikungunya fever case to be detected and found both mosquito breeding and stagnant water at a residential estate.

They instigated a prosecution and issued a statutory notice to the property management company concerned, asking it to eliminate the mosquito breeding grounds. The department also inspected nearby construction sites and again found mosquito breeding and stagnant water. It instigated a prosecution and issued four statutory notices to the contractors involved.

Additionally, the FEHD has inspected schools, elderly homes and childcare facilities in the surrounding area and installed new mosquito traps in the schools to strengthen mosquito prevention and control.

Mr Tse said the Government will enhance mosquito control efforts and called on people to support efforts by seeking medical advice and contacting the Centre for Health Protection if they have a fever, rash or joint pain.

He added that property management personnel should inspect public areas within buildings and housing estates such as flower beds, refuse rooms, and rooftops, to thoroughly eliminate stagnant water.