Nie Dequan: More than 70% of Hong Kong SAR government employees are involved in epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic work

(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Nie Dequan: More than 70% of Hong Kong SAR government employees are involved in epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic work

　　China News Service, Hong Kong, March 19 (Reporter Zhang Xiaoxi) Nie Dequan, director of the Civil Service Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, said on the 19th that since the outbreak of the fifth wave of the epidemic, a total of more than 140,000 government employees have participated in epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic work, accounting for more than 70% of the total number of government employees. become.

He hoped that the society would not obliterate the efforts of civil servants to perform their duties.

　　On the same day, Nie Dequan attended the anti-epidemic press conference held at the SAR government headquarters.

He said that since the fifth round of the epidemic began on March 14, 32,200 government employees had been infected with the new crown virus, accounting for 17% of the total, and 70% of the employees who had been infected had returned to work. He thanked frontline colleagues for keeping their posts during the severe epidemic, Strive to serve the citizens.

　　He introduced that the core anti-epidemic decision-making bureaus and departments of the SAR government involve more than 30,000 employees. Among them, the Food and Health Bureau, the Department of Health and the Food and Environment Department are responsible for formulating and promoting overall anti-epidemic strategies and measures; And the Welfare Bureau, Home Affairs Department and Social Welfare Department are responsible for testing operations in restricted areas, providing support to quarantined persons, residential care homes for the elderly and residential care homes for the disabled; the Civil Service Bureau is responsible for promoting the new crown vaccination plan; the Information Services Department is responsible for disseminating the epidemic situation information.

　　He continued to point out that in addition to the core anti-epidemic decision-making bureaus and departments, other SAR government departments have also invested in anti-epidemic manpower as needed to provide support for the anti-epidemic work, including the enclosure of restricted areas, forced inspection, sewage monitoring, etc. The spread of the epidemic, as well as the protection of other public services, etc.

　　Nie Dequan stressed that the vast majority of civil servants are honest and fair, and perform their duties in a responsible and fair manner.

The SAR Government has always required civil servants to perform their duties faithfully and will not condone those who have no responsibility.

The SAR Government will also humbly accept any criticism or opinions raised by the outside world, but it is hoped that the society will not obliterate the efforts of civil servants to perform their duties. At present, the most important thing is to unite and fight the epidemic together.

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