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Energy efficiency meeting held

Secretary for Environment & Ecology Tse Chin-wan today attended the 60th Meeting of the Expert Group on Energy Efficiency & Conservation of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) held in Hong Kong.   In his welcome speech, Mr Tse said that Hong Kong was honoured to host the meeting again after 2019 and 2020 to provide a platform for direct dialogue among APEC partners.   “It is encouraging to see over 50 experts and delegates from 11 APEC member economies as well as four international organisations gather again to share insights and exchange experiences with their counterparts after the stabilisation of the epidemic.”   As the Asia-Pacific region develops, its energy demand and consumption would continue to increase, which may lead to an increase in emissions of greenhouse gases, he pointed out.   To achieve carbon neutrality before 2050, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government published Hong Kong’s Climate Action Plan 2050 in 2021, outlining the st
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Local COVID-19 case detected

(To watch the full press briefing with sign language interpretation, click here.)   The Centre for Health Protection today said it is investigating three additional COVID-19 cases, two imported and one local case with an unknown source of infection.   The centre's Communicable Disease Branch Head Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan told a press briefing this afternoon that all three cases involve the L452R mutant strain.   She said the local case is a 47-year-old woman who works as a waitress in a VIP lounge at the airport, where she mainly served transit and outbound travellers.   After assessing the patient's exposure risk, there is a high possibility that she caught the virus at work, Dr Chuang added.   “For all the outbound travellers, I understand many of them would have (been) tested before they (departed) Hong Kong for other places.   “And even if they did not have tests, the risk of acquiring a local infection from the Hong Kong community is quite low.   “So for the transit travellers, because they come from other places and the epidemic situation all over the world is mostly very severe, it is very difficult to determine the actual source of infection. We are doing the genetic sequencing to check.”   The imported cases arrived from the UK and Oman.   Meanwhile, the genetic sequencing for a foreign domestic helper infected with COVID-19 on the 13th day of her arrival in Hong Kong was found to be identical to the genomes of two previous imported cases, suggesting that the three cases might be epidemiologically linked.   The three cases stayed on the same floor of the Dorsett Wanchai, Hong Kong hotel for compulsory quarantine after arrival in Hong Kong on August 1. The helper was in the room opposite to the one where the infected couple stayed.   The centre is of the view that the helper may have caught the virus through airborne transmission when the couple opened their hotel room door to submit samples.   It has arranged for 13 people who stayed on the same floor as the case from August 1 to 4 to undergo compulsory quarantine.   For information and health advice on COVID-19, visit the Government's dedicated webpage.
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