Nearly 20% of freight drivers cannot enter the country without receiving the new crown test! Hong Kong Pigs

Since the African swine fever, the supply of live pigs in Hong Kong has plummeted, and the price of pigs in Hong Kong has soared to $66 per kilogram I didn't expect that the price of live pigs in Hong Kong will rise by another 14% in one day due to a new regulation of the Shenzhen Municipal Government, which caused the supply of live pigs to plummet by 20% JtH Shenzhen Municipal Government on Friday (April 10) stipulated that cross-boundary truck drivers must provide health certificates when entering the Mainland, but on the first day of the new measures, nearly 20% of drivers were over-checked or never tested, leaving hundreds of lorries unable to enter the country JtH affected the supply of food to Hong Kong, with only 1355 live pigs being imported into Hong Kong, a 20 per cent reduction, or 360, from last Thursday (April 9), resulting in a nearly 14 per cent increase in the price of pork per load and a rise of more than 10 per cent in the retail price of the street JtH FEHD data show that from 1 to 9 April, the average daily number of live pigs in hong Kong was between 1663 and 1807, but the number of live pigs supplied to Hong Kong fell sharply to 1355 on 10 April, a 20% decrease from 9 April The auction price also jumped sharply, with the highest auction price rising by 15.8 per cent from HK$3,800 on the 9th to HK$4,400 on the 10th, while the average auction price rose by 13.8 per cent from HK$3,435 on the 9th to HK$3,911 on the 10th JtH trade union representative said that drivers had improved after learning of the new requirements and that although the current clearance time was longer than usual, supplies could still be transported to Hong Kong and it was not expected that the supply of fresh food would be affected too much JtH in order to do a good job in shenzhen and Hong Kong material supply protection, to facilitate drivers to engage in cross-border business, Shenzhen from April 11 to start a special operation, the test results of nucleic acid in Hong Kong have exceeded 7 days of validity period and did not accept nucleic acid testing, can not pass the Shenzhen port entry health certificate materials verification of cross-border truck drivers, can self-drive to shenzhen Bay port cargo channel to receive sampling, health registration form and special matters notice, and then follow the site direction suke-to-port, and then follow the normal direction of the next day JtHJtH the price of pork per load rose by nearly 14%
A spokesman for the Transport Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government also said that after discussion, arrangements had been made for cross-boundary truck drivers without effective nucleic acid testing reports to be allowed to drive trucks to the Shenzhen Bay Port cargo channel, receive nucleic acid testing and return to Hong Kong after sampling, pending the issuance of formal test results, and then normal customs clearance to Shenzhen JtH truck drivers said that the relevant test results need 9 to 10 hours to be announced, many drivers have been unable to cross the border on the first day, Wenjindu Control Point, the mainland port area yesterday more long "plug"of the car dragon JtH Container Transport Industry Staff Association Chairman Chen Dihand said in an interview with the Hong Kong Wen Report that drivers could enter the Mainland immediately after being tested at the port in the past, but after the new measures came into effect, the Shenzhen Municipal Government strictly required drivers to have a valid health certificate and drivers had been tested the day before customs clearance, but many Drivers are not aware of the new requirements, on April 10, as many as 20 drivers who did not meet the requirements were refused entry by the Shenzhen side, and hundreds of truck drivers waiting to cross the border, see the front of the truck was "backed" back to Hong Kong, only to know that they do not meet the new requirements, so they returned JtH revealed that five to six of the vehicles that had been "retired" were live food trucks such as pigs, and that hong Kong's food supply had been affected by the fact that many of the trucks that had intended to transport fresh food back to Hong Kong had returned to Hong Kong on their own According to information released by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, Hong Kong imported 1,355 live pigs from the Mainland on 10 April, down from about 1,600 to 1800 a day between 1 and 9 this month Although there were 569 pigs in Japan's local pig supply on April 10, the total supply was still less than 2000, the lowest price of the month, with an average price of 3,911 yuan per load (100 catties), a new high since March, and about 14% more expensive than the previous day's 3,435 yuan JtH However , Mr Chan believes that drivers will improve when they understand the new requirements , and that the number of trucks that were " returned " on 11 April is only a few , and that although the current clearance time is longer than usual , supplies can still be transported to Hong Kong , and it is estimated that the supply of fresh food will not have much impact Yu Yahong, president of the Hong Kong-Guangdong Transport Association of the JtH, also said that a large number of drivers had been withdrawn from Hong Kong on the first day, mainly because they did not understand the policy and thought they could enter the country on the day of sampling "There are some Hong Kong drivers who are not able to use mobile phones that are not online, can't bind 'i Shenzhen', and don't know that there's a change in policy These issues were resolved during the day, and they were asked to find their families to help bind JtH went on to say that the supply of pigs to Hong Kong has been relatively stable and that the price increase is related to the implementation of the new measures on the one hand and may also be related to the increase in consumption by Hong Kong people during the Easter holidays "I believe there will be no impact on supplies to Hong Kong Xiao Qisen, head of Hong Kong cuisine at Shenzhen Wenxing Bank, said that the company supplies about 80 cars of vegetables to Hong Kong every day, mainly to Changsha Bay Wholesale Market, Hong Kong's Top 100 Supermarkets and Wellcome Supermarkets, and the new measures have no impact on the transport of Hong Kong food JtH