Chief Executive John Lee cheered on the Hong Kong athletes taking part in various events at the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou today. Mr Lee went to games venues to watch events in which Hong Kong athletes were competing, including swimming, wushu and fencing, and extended his warmest congratulations to the athletes who won medals. Noting that having the games in their own country is of great importance to Hong Kong athletes, Mr Lee said he was pleased to have the opportunity to watch Hong Kong competitors strive for excellence and demonstrate extraordinary capabilities. He expressed his hope that Hong Kong athletes will continue to excel and unleash their potential to achieve outstanding results. The Chief Executive earlier visited the Zhejiang Liaison Unit of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and encouraged its staff members to strive to serve both the people of Hong Kong and enterprises in Zhejiang. Today’s activities also included a lunch with th
The Centre for Health Protection today said it is investigating 446 additional COVID-19 cases, of which 176 were detected by nucleic acid tests and 270 were identified via rapid antigen tests.
Among the new cases, 64 are imported while the rest are locally infected.
Since the onset of the fifth wave of the epidemic, 1,202,007 people have contracted the virus and 9,169 people passed away.
Of the newly reported cases, regarding the bar clusters in Central, Zentral bar registered two more cases and Iron Fairies & J. Boroski recorded three more. While there were 44 additional cases for LINQ bar, Shuffle bar registered a further 27 cases.
Separately, the Government made a restriction-testing declaration to cover Block 6 of Richland Gardens in Kowloon Bay. People in the restricted area are required to undergo compulsory testing before the specified deadline.
As there were positive sewage test results with relatively high viral loads at Shun Tin Estate in Kwun Tong and Tung Tau (II) Estate in Wong Tai Sin, the Housing Department and the respective district office will distribute COVID-19 rapid test kits to relevant residents as well as cleaning workers and property management staff working there.
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