Secretary for Health Prof Lo Chung-mau met a delegation led by Guangdong Provincial Medical Products Administration (GDMPA) General Director Jiang Xiaodong today, with both sides agreeing to further deepen collaboration in relevant areas. Prof Lo said the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government expressed its sincere gratitude to the GDMPA for its staunch support for Hong Kong in the past, including the implementation of the initiatives of, among others, the measure of using Hong Kong registered drugs and medical devices used in Hong Kong public hospitals in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and streamlining of the approval procedures for Hong Kong registered traditional proprietary Chinese medicines (pCms) for external use to be registered and sold in the Mainland. The Government and the GDMPA agreed at the meeting to further deepen collaboration on the regulation of Chinese medicines (CM), the formulation of Greater Bay Area Chinese medicine standards,
Chief Executive Carrie Lam said as the local COVID-19 epidemic situation remains stagnant, the Government will not further relax social distancing measures, at least for now.
Mrs Lam made the statement ahead of today’s Executive Council meeting and elaborated on the reason for keeping the current anti-epidemic rules in place.
“We are in a sort of stagnant situation with the daily number of COVID-19 positive-tested cases staying at around 200 and 300 cases including local infections, as well as imported cases, but there have already been over 10 such infection clusters in the community, especially the most recent two cases involving bars.
“So we will have to take a very prudent approach and my position at this moment is we probably will not introduce the third and final stage of the social distancing measures relaxation before the end of June.”
The Chief Executive pointed out that the final phase of the relaxation of social distancing measures involves removing any remaining restrictions on the operation of specified premises that include restaurants and bars.
“For example, the maximum number of people in a banquet, the capacity - whether it is 75% or 85% or whether it should go back to 100-% - and the permission of live performances.”
She added that she believes most citizens will not be affected by such measures.
“On balance, I feel these activities would not be very detrimental to the return to normalcy of the great majority of Hong Kong people.”
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