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FS visits biomedical firm in UK

Financial Secretary Paul Chan yesterday visited a biopharmaceutical company and the Royal College of Art, and attended a lunch hosted by the China-Britain Business Council, as part of his ongoing trip to London.   Mr Chan visited AstraZeneca and met the company’s senior management to learn about its drug research and development activities, as well as its latest expansion plans.   AstraZeneca indicated that following in-depth talks with Hong Kong’s Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises, it plans to develop a research and development centre in Hong Kong and will engage in further discussion with relevant government departments on the matter.   The Financial Secretary then attended a roundtable luncheon held by the China-Britain Business Council, and met representatives of British enterprises that do business, or plan to do business, either in the Mainland or Hong Kong.   Mr Chan later visited the Royal College of Art, which collaborated with the Hong Kong Polytechnic Unive
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Tai Kok Tsui operation ends

The Government completed the compulsory testing and enforcement operation in the Tai Kok Tsui restricted area with no confirmed COVID-19 cases found.   It made a restriction-testing declaration 8pm yesterday, requiring people in Tower 6, Island Harbourview to stay in their premises and undergo compulsory testing. About 760 residents were tested.   In the subsequent enforcement operation which ended this morning, around 380 people were checked and no one was found breaching the compulsory testing requirement.   Government staff also visited about 280 households, with around 40 did not answer the door. They should contact the Government as soon as possible to arrange testing.   The Government reminded that people who stayed in the building for more than two hours from May 3 to 23 should get tested by May 25 even if they were not in the restricted area when the declaration took effect.  
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