Metro passenger numbers up 15% on Monday
A man returns to work at an office building at HKRI Taikoo Hui in Jing’an District on Monday morning.
The number of passengers using the Metro by 9am on Monday was about 15 percent more than on the same day last week.
A total of 487,000 people had taken the Metro by that time, 63,000 more than last Monday, according to Metro officials.
However, that was still an 82 percent drop compared with the same day last year when 2.75 million people had used the Metro by 9am.
Around the city, companies are implementing government requirements to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus pneumonia in offices.
At HKRI Taikoo Hui in Jing’an District, all staff whose companies have been approved by the government to resume work received an SMS message from the property’s management firm confirming the return to work.
“This is to save the trouble of us checking their identity card when they arrive at work and also to avoid contact with other people as much as possible,” said Qiu Liqiong, a senior manager at the firm.
At the property’s office buildings, elevators allow only up to six people at any one time, a measure in place at several other office buildings.
The property management firm reports the number of people returning to work and their health status to the district police on a daily basis.
“Where a surge of workers returning to work happens, our officers are deployed to the entrance of the office building during morning rush hours to ensure that no incident happens,” said Feng Juwei, a police officer in charge of office building safety management in the district.
