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More than 5,400 applications for the Anti-epidemic Support Scheme for Property Management Sector have been approved, involving subsidies of over $200 million.
The approved subsidies will benefit more than 27,200 building blocks and 51,300 frontline property management workers.
The scheme, which has received over 8,700 applications as of today, was launched under the Anti-epidemic Fund to subsidise owners' organisations or property management companies of buildings to provide the Anti-epidemic Hardship Allowance to frontline property management workers.
It will also provide the Anti-epidemic Cleansing Subsidy to owners' organisations or property management companies.
Phase 1 of the scheme covers private residential and composite buildings while phase II covers industrial and commercial buildings, including shopping malls.
The application deadlines for phase I and phase II are May 31 and June 15.
Click here for details.
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The Housing Authority (HA) today said it will proactively inspect the communal drainage pipes of all its public rental housing, including the pipes inside some of the units.
The move is in line with the Government's earlier announcement about inspecting the drainage pipes on external walls for target private residential and composite buildings in Hong Kong.
The HA’s preventive measure follows public concern about the condition of the drainage system in buildings during the COVID-19 epidemic.
The authority said it is drawing up a detailed work plan including the implementation timetable, the order of inspection to estates and the mode of inspection.
It will expedite the programme's implementation and make an announcement when the details are confirmed.
The HA added that it will increase manpower and give priority to estates with confirmed COVID-19 cases.
Under the Responsive In-flat Maintenance Service, the authority provides in-flat maintenance and repair works for its rental units.
Tenants with questions about the current condition of their drainage pipe works can contact the respective estate management office for follow up.
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(To watch the full press briefing with sign language interpretation, click here.)
The Centre for Health Protection today announced it is investigating a new imported COVID-19 case involving a 43-year-old man.
The centre's Communicable Disease Branch Head Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan explained at a press briefing that the man was classified as an imported case because he developed symptoms while in France.
\"The latest case is considered as an imported case because he had onset of symptoms in mid-March, March 16, and he had a fever for two days while he was in France from March 16 to 17, and his symptoms subsided spontaneously, he did not seek medical attention. So he went back to Hong Kong at the end of March, March 31 and he self-isolated at home for quite a long period, for more than three weeks.\"
Dr Chuang noted that the patient's girlfriend was a confirmed case.
\"So we traced back and he actually had contact with the girlfriend back on March 15, before he had onset of symptoms in France - he actually stayed in Hong Kong for one or two days before he went to France.
\"Therefore, we arranged for him to have a test in mid-April. During that time the test turned out to be negative, so we could not confirm the linkage between the two cases then.\"
She said the man tested positive for the virus recently when he was admitted to a public hospital for a hand injury.
\"But recently, he attended a general practitioner and asked for an antibody test and it turned out to be positive by the general practitioner. And he injured his fingers and therefore he was admitted to a Hospital Authority hospital and was found to be still carrying the virus tested positive by PCR (polymerase chain reaction).
\"So therefore, we think that his onset of symptoms was while he was in France, and he only stayed for one or two days in Hong Kong at that time, so we think he is an imported case and he may still have tested positive because of the nature of this disease.\"
For information and health advice on COVID-19, visit the Government's dedicated webpage.
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