Amoy Gardens
Amoy Gardens (Chinese: 淘大花園; Jyutping: tou4 daai6 faa1 jyun4; Pinyin: táo dà huā yuán) is a high-density middle-class private housing estate in Hong Kong completed from 1981 to 1987.[1] It was the most seriously affected location during the 2003 SARS outbreak, with over 300 infected people.
Location
Amoy Gardens is located in the Ngau Tau Kok area of Kowloon, in the north east of Kowloon Peninsula of Hong Kong. It was on the land formerly the factory of soy sauce and other foods of Amoy Food Limited. Administratively, it is part of the Kwun Tong District.
Features
Amoy Gardens comprises 19 blocks, from A to S, with height ranging from 30 to 40 floors.[1] The eight blocks A-H are 33 stories/105 m high, and situated on a podium 14 m high, which houses a commercial and shopping center. These eight blocks have 8 apartments per floor arranged in a cruciform shape. Each arm of the cruciform contains 2 apartments.[3]
There is a shopping mall (Amoy Plaza) as well as a food square within the entire Amoy Gardens estate.
SARS outbreak
Towards the end of March 2003, an outbreak of SARS occurred among residents of Amoy Gardens. As of April 15, 2003, there were a total of 321 cases of SARS in the estate. A concentration of cases was recorded in block E, accounting for 41% of the cumulative total. Block C (15%), block B (13%) and block D (13%) recorded the second, third and fourth highest incidence of SARS infections. The other cases (18%) were scattered in 11 other blocks.[4] Most of the initial 107 patients from Block E lived in flats that were vertically arranged.
All residents were subsequently moved to Lei Yue Mun and MacLehose Holiday Camps for isolation. In the mid-2003, the authority concern found that there were serious problems of water pipes which may have contributed to the spread of SARS.
The estate was decontaminated and the residents could return.
Transportation
Amoy Gardens is served by the Kowloon Bay Station of the MTR metro system.[5]
- KMB
- 1A- Sau Mau Ping (Central) ↔ Star Ferry
- 3D- Tsz Wan Shan (Central) ↔ Kwun Tong (Yue Man Square)
- 11B- Kwun Tong (Tsui Ping Road) ↔ Kowloon City Ferry
- 11C- Sau Mau Ping (Upper) ↔ Chuk Yuen Estate
- 11D- Lok Fu ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 13P- Po Tat → Lai Kok (rush time service)
- 14- Yau Tong ↔ China Hong Kong City
- 15- Ping Tin ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
- 16- Lam Tin (Kwong Tin Estate) ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
- 17- Oi Man ↔ Kwun Tong (Yue Man Square)
- 38- Kwai Shing (East) ↔ Ping Tin
- 40- Laguna City ↔ Tsuen Wan (Nina Tower)
- 42C- Cheung Heng ↔ Lam Tin Station
- 62X- Tuen Mun Town Centre ↔ Yau Tong (rush time service)
- 70X- Sheung Shui ↔ Kwun Tong (Tsui Ping Road)
- 74A- Tai Wo ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 74X- Tai Po Central ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 80- Mei Lam ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 80X- Chun Shek ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 83X- Kwun Tong Ferry ↔ Wong Nai Tau (rush time service)
- 89- Lek Yuen ↔ Kwun Tong Station
- 89B- Sha Tin Wai ↔ Kwun Tong Station
- 89C- Heng On ↔ Kwun Tong (Tsui Ping Road)
- 89D- Wu Kai Shan Station ↔ Lam Tin Station
- 89X- Sha Tin Station ↔ Kwun Tong Station
- 93K- Po Lam ↔ Mong Kok East Station
- 258D- Po Tin ↔ Lam Tin Station
- 259D- Lung Mun Oasis ↔ Yau Tong
- 268C- Long Ping Station ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 269C- Sha Tin Station ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 277X- Luen Wo Hui ↔ Ping Tin
- 292P- Sai Kung → Kwun Tong( Millennium City) (rush time service)
- 296C- Sheung Tak ↔ Sham Shui Po (Tonkin Street)
- NWFB
- N796- Tseung Kwan O Station ↺ Tsim Sha Tsui
- Citybus
- A22- Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) ↔ Lam Tin Station
- E22- AsiaWorld-Expo ↔ Lam Tin (North)
- E22A- AsiaWorld-Expo ↔ Tseung Kwan O Po Lam
- E22P- AsiaWorld-Expo ↔ Yau Tong (rush time service)
- E22S- Tung Chung (Yat Tung Estate) ↔ Tseung Kwan O Po Lam
- R22- Disneyland Resort → Yau Tong
- Cross Harbour Tunnel Bus
- 101- Kwun Tong (Yue Man Square) ↔ Kennedy Town
- 101R- Happy Valley Racecourse → Kwun Tong (Yue Man Square)
- 671- Diamond Hill Station ↔ Ap Lei Chau (Lee Lok Street)
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