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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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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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