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DC election poll cards mailed

The Registration & Electoral Office today said it has mailed poll cards for the District Council Ordinary Election to about 4.33 million registered electors to inform them of where they should cast their votes on December 10.   Electors who have not received their poll cards may log in to the Online Voter Information Enquiry System to check whether they are registered electors and their designated polling stations, the office said.   District Council geographical constituency (DCGC) electors will be allocated to ordinary polling stations in the vicinity of their registered addresses. Polling hours will be from 8.30am to 10.30pm.   District Committees constituency (DCC) electors will be assigned to the polling stations of the DCCs to which they belong. The polling hours will be from 8.30am to 2.30pm. They will also receive a reminder on the poll card envelope that the DCC and DCGC vote will take place at two different polling stations with different polling hours.  
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SMS test result discrepancy handled

The Hospital Authority today said it was notified by the COVID-19 test service vendor that some members of the public received the wrong specimen bottle number in the SMS messages concerning their test results.   As a result, these people could not log in to the government’s electronic testing record system to download their test results.   To tie in with the Centre for Health Protection’s Enhanced Laboratory Surveillance Programme, the authority contracted a test service vendor to arrange COVID-19 tests and provide the negative result notifications via SMS.           The authority said the incident was caused by a specimen bottle number discrepancy during the test result information handling process.   The 103 people who were affected returned their specimen bottles to general outpatient clinics on March 2. All the test results came back negative.   The vendor confirmed that neither personal data nor privacy was involved in the discrepancy and no test result was affected.        Upon receiving the notification yesterday, the authority requested the vendor to inform those affected and send an amendment SMS immediately.   It also tasked the vendor with reviewing the system and fixing the error.   The incident was reported to the Food & Health Bureau and the Department of Health.
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