Dear Staff and Students,
We would like to share the following message on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) from Department of Health about Government extends social distancing measures under Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance and sets up website to facilitate public to download electronic testing record.
Health, Safety and Environment Office
Updated information on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Government extends social distancing measures under Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance and Government sets up website to facilitate public to download electronic testing record
The COVID-19 epidemic situation in Hong Kong remains serious. Silent transmission in the community is still active. Although the number of confirmed cases declined slowly in recent days, the speed of decline was clearly slower than that in the former wave of epidemic. The risk of rebound of the epidemic situation has not subsided, and large cluster outbreaks still happened from time to time. The situation is worrying. The Government announced that it will gazette to maintain the social distancing measures currently in place. The directions and specifications will take effect on January 7, 2021 for a period of 14 days till January 20, 2021.
The details of the extended requirements and restrictions are as follows:
(1) The requirements and restrictions applicable to catering business and scheduled premises (details at Annex 1) will be maintained, including the following requirements: from 6pm to 4.59am of the subsequent day, save for specific premises (details at Annex 2), a person responsible for carrying on a catering business must cease selling or supplying food or drink for consumption on the premises of the business; no more than two persons may be seated together at one table within any catering premises; bars or pubs will continue to be closed; and except club-houses and hotels or guesthouses, all scheduled premises regulated under Cap. 599F must be closed.
(2) Unless exempted, the prohibition on group gatherings of more than two persons in public places will continue. The requirement is also applicable to group gatherings in catering business and scheduled premises regulated under Cap. 599F in which the relevant requirements or restrictions are not complied with.
(3) The mandatory mask-wearing requirement under Cap. 599I will be extended.
Moreover, The Government has set up a website (www.evt.gov.hk) to facilitate public downloading of their own electronic testing record through the COVID-19 Electronic Testing Record System (the System). The "Electronic Vaccination Record" will be added to the System at a later stage. By then, the public can download both their COVID-19 electronic testing record and vaccination record after verifying their identity through "iAM Smart".
For more details, please refer to the press release and the Annex:
Government extends social distancing measures under Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202101/04/P2021010400721.htm
Annex
https://gia.info.gov.hk/general/202101/04/P2021010400721_357829_1_1609765758849.pdf
Government sets up website to facilitate public to download electronic testing record
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202101/03/P2021010300468.htm
Please visit our Facebook and Thematic Website (https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/index.html) regularly for further information and updates.
We would like to solicit your support to disseminate the information to your colleagues, work associates and/or business partners so that they could adopt proper preventive measures. Thank you very much for your support.
Department of Health
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2019冠狀病毒病的最新資訊
政府延續《預防及控制疾病條例》下的社交距離措施 及 政府設立網站方便市民下載電子檢測記錄
本港2019冠狀病毒病疫情仍然嚴峻，社區隱形傳播鏈依然活躍。雖然確診個案數字近日開始緩慢下降，但相對上一波疫情，疫情緩和速度明顯較慢，疫情反彈風險未退，不時出現大型群組爆發，情況令人憂慮。政府刊憲維持現行的社交距離措施。這些指示及指明將由2021年1月7日生效，為期14天，直至2021年1月20日。
延續的規定及限制如下：
（1）繼續維持就餐飲業務及表列處所的規定及限制（詳見附件一），包括於每天下午六時起至翌日上午四時五十九分，除特定處所（見附件二）外，餐飲業務負責人須停止售賣或供應供在有關業務的處所內進食或飲用的食物或飲品；餐飲處所內不得有多於二人同坐一桌；繼續關閉酒吧或酒館；以及除會址及酒店或賓館外，所有第599F章下的表列處所必須繼續停止營業。
（2）除獲豁免者外，繼續禁止在公眾地方進行超過二人的羣組聚集。有關規定同樣適用於未有遵從第599F章下相關規定或限制的餐飲業務及表列處所內的羣組聚集。
（3）延續第599I章下強制佩戴口罩的要求。
另外，政府設立網站（www.evt.gov.hk），方便市民可以通過2019冠狀病毒病電子檢測記錄系統，下載自己的電子檢測記錄。系統稍後亦會加入「電子針卡」記錄，屆時市民可透過「智方便」確認身份後，同時下載2019冠狀病毒病電子檢測記錄及疫苗注射記錄。
詳情請參閱有關新聞公報及附件：
政府延續《預防及控制疾病條例》下的社交距離措施
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202101/04/P2021010400719.htm
附件
https://gia.info.gov.hk/general/202101/04/P2021010400719_357828_1_1609765737535.pdf
政府設立網站方便市民下載電子檢測記錄
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202101/03/P2021010300265.htm
請定期留意我們的Facebook及專題網站（https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/chi/index.html），以獲取更多及更新的資訊。
希望你可以將有關資訊與你的同事、合作者及／或業務伙伴分享，讓他們都能採取合適的預防措施。非常感謝你的支持。
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