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Feb 22 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
HKFP_Live: Chief Exec. Carrie Lam is meeting the press about city-wide compulsory Covid-19 testing [English interpretation] twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
JUST IN: Lam said that social distancing measures will be extended until mid-April, or as late as the end of April. Schools will have an early summer holiday starting from March or April. instead of the usual July, she added.
The arrangements will be applicable to all kindergartens, primary, secondary schools, as well as international schools. The facilities will be used for testing, quarantine, and vaccination purposes.
Schools will resume teaching after Easter holidays in April, and Lam said that she hoped that Hong Kong's public exams for universities entrance, HKDSE, will still begin in April.

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Feb 22
JUST IN: Hong Kong social distancing rules, including the closure of scheduled premises such as gyms, bars, and swimming pools, and no dine-in services after 6 p.m., will extended until April.
The government aims for a 90 per cent vaccination rate for the first dose of vaccine by the beginning of March, and an 80 per cent rate for the second dose in mid-March.
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Feb 22
BREAKING: Hong Kong to undergo citywide compulsory Covid testing, schools to halt early for summer

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With the help on the Central government, Hong Kong will implement citywide testing, Chief Executive Carrie Lam has announced. Three rounds of testing will be conducted, said Lam on Tuesday, and no less than one million tests will be carried out per day.
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Sep 21, 2021
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Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the Election Committee polls on Sunday fulfilled the goal of the sweeping overhaul - to ensure only patriots administer Hong Kong. She said she could not say why democrats did not take part.
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Jul 3, 2021
1/ Hong Kong beverage firm Vitasoy has confirmed that Leung Kin-fai - the suspect who stabbed a policeman in Causeway Bay on Thur and died after knifing himself - was their employee.
2/ In a Weibo statement on Fri, it said it "fully supported" a probe under the national security law, adding it was committed to supporting the stability, prosperity and development of Hong Kong and mainland China.
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Jul 1, 2021
HKFP_Live: Pro-democracy activists are being searched in Mong Kok as police try to thwart gatherings on the July 1 Handover anniversary.
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Convenor of Student Politicism Wong Yat-chin was searched by police on Soy Street in Mong Kok, just before the student activist group was set to open a street booth. ImageImage
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Jul 1, 2021
Raphael Wong, chairman of the League of Social Democrats, has set up a street booth under the Canal Road flyover in Causeway Bay.

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