Asked if she and #CarrieLam will go to Wuhan and find out more about the mysterious viral pneumonia, Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan said the government would continue to rely on existing notification system with its mainland counterpart.
Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan dodged the question from Civic Party lawmaker Alvin Yeung whether the government would call on citizens to wear masks in crowded places.
Note that hearing for government's appeal for mask ban will start tomorrow in High Court.
Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan said HK does not have "cases of that type of pneumonia found in Wuhan" - though the gov does not know what type it exactly is.
Chan also could not tell the latest case numbers in Wuhan and other cities asked by lawmaker Tanya Chan.
Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan said the Department of Health has been in touch with the National Health Commission every day and asking for more information, and she believed the mechanism is working well.
Note the latest number of cases in Wuhan was by 8am on Jan 5.
DAB lawmaker Wilson Or put on a surgical mask during the LegCo session of urgent inquiries on the mysterious viral pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, but apparently he got it inside out...
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Six months ago, DAB lawmaker Ben Chan got the elevation sling for his left arm wrong.
Chan said he was wounded by lawmaker Gary Fan in a parliamentary brawl for the power to vet the #extraditionbill, and the binding-up was done by LegCo security.
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The confidential work of national security committee was again revealed in court.
The court was shown two “judgement and decision” by NSC during the legislative exercise of the #Article23 security law which in general said the bill and the amendments were necessary…
…and the HK gov table them at the legislature. The prosecution confirmed that the documents were not available to the legislators and were revealed under special authorisation from the gov to assist the court in today’s proceeding.
Today’s proceeding concerned jailed #HKAlliance activist Chow Hang-tang’s application to introduce evidence from overseas witnessed by live TV link in the Alliance’s #NSL trial scheduled to start next May.
What happened in Hong Kong around June 4, 2024, the 35th anniversary of the deadly, military crackdown on democracy protests in China in 1989. It’s the first Tiananmen anniversary in Hong Kong since the city enacted a second national security law.
🗓️ May 24: Ex pro-democracy district councillor Debby Chan disclosed on social media that police called her concerning where she would run on June 4 and warned her not to contravene national security law.
🗓️ May 28: HK national security police made the first arrests under the newly enacted “#Article23” Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, rounding up jailed Tiananmen activist Chow Hang-tung and five associates over the allegation of…
#BREAKING HK top court ruled in favour of journalist @Baochoy’s appeal , quashing all her conviction and fines as the court found “there was no reason that bona fide investigative journalism … should be excluded from the phrase ‘other traffic and transport related purpose’.”
Choy was found guilty of “making false statement” 2 years ago for choosing the purpose of “other traffic and transport related matters” on the application form for car owner info from public registries controlled by the Transport Dept.
Choy’s search was for her award winning investigative report on #721YuenLongAttack in 2019. The application form then provided only 3 purposes for applicants after an amendment to remove the open-ended “other:” column in Oct 2019.
Tsui Hon-Kwong, veteran member of disbanded #HongKongAlliance - the group who hosted candlelight vigil for #June4 for three decades in HK, was taken away by police. He kept upholding his candle for #TiananmenMothers until police shut the door.
A man whose phone torch was on was taken away by police after a search. An officer snatched his phone as a group of officers escorted him into the search zone.
At a point people were lined up to wait for police search.
#BREAKING League of Social Democrats leader #ChanPoying was taken away minutes after she showed up with a small candle for #TiananmenMothers and two yellow flowers. She resisted and tried to uphold what she had in hands.
Heard LSD’s Chan Po-Ying said “why must police station? I don’t mind here.” before police bundled her into a police car.
Truck driver turned activist To Chi-kuen was taken away by police. He apparently carried nothing with him except wearing a tee that says “I don’t want to remember but I dare not to forget”.