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Kowloon Park arts fair to open

The Leisure & Cultural Services Department will launch a new phase of its Arts Fun Fair at Kowloon Park this Sunday.   It will have 16 stalls displaying and selling craftworks that feature fabric crafts, floral artworks and ornaments. Park-goers can also participate in art services such as painting and portrait sketching.   The fair will be open from 1pm to 7pm on Sundays and public holidays at the park's loggia until May 26 next year.   Visitors can enjoy the park’s beautiful scenery while appreciating a wide range of handicrafts and artworks.   The Arts Corner at Hong Kong Park is being held from noon to 6pm on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays until December 31.   The Arts Corner at Victoria Park welcomes applications from today until June 23 for operating stalls in the coming round of the fair.   For enquiries about the fair in Kowloon Park, call 2724 3344. For questions about Hong Kong Park and Victoria Park, call 2521 5041 or 2890 5824 respectively. http:

Mainland experts conclude HK visit

The Mainland epidemic prevention and control expert delegation today inspected local institutions and facilities related to anti-epidemic work on the last day of their visit to Hong Kong.   Chief Secretary John Lee said with the conclusion of the four-day visit, the second meeting on the anti-epidemic work of the Mainland and Hong Kong will be held in Shenzhen on November 25. Mr Lee will lead a delegation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to attend.   The delegation first visited a community pharmacy and a private clinic to understand the regulatory control for retailing medicines, the purchase of fever relief medicines by customers, as well as the triage and consultation arrangement in the clinic.   This was followed by a tour to a secondary school to ascertain class arrangements, vaccination and testing requirements in Hong Kong under the epidemic. The delegation also examined the school’s anti-epidemic facilities and social distancing measures.   Later in the day, the delegation dropped in on the Community Vaccination Centre at the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park Sports Centre to learn about the Hong Kong SAR Government's COVID-19 vaccination progress.   Chairing a working meeting to conclude the event, Mr Lee emphasised that the visit had created a very positive and constructive effect on the gradual and orderly resumption of quarantine-free travel between the Mainland and Hong Kong.   He added that it has helped to move a very important step towards the goal of resuming cross-boundary travel in an orderly manner.   He expressed gratitude to the State Council’s Hong Kong & Macao Affairs Office and the National Health Commission (NHC) for organising the delegation to Hong Kong.   He also thanked the delegation members for their hard work of visiting different institutions and facilities in the past few days, during which experts and anti-epidemic frontline staff of both sides interacted and exchanged views.   Such exchanges enhance mutual understanding of the management of the epidemic situation and the control measures, he added.   Separately, during the visit, representatives of NHC’s big data office, the Innovation & Technology Bureau and the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer had in-depth exchanges and discussions on the design, operation and information security protection of the Hong Kong Health Code system.   They also discussed the preparation work of the interface between the Hong Kong Health Code and the Yuekang Code.   Having concluded their visit, the delegation departed Hong Kong in the afternoon.
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