On the 23rd, the Hong Kong SAR government held an anti-epidemic press conference. The Director of the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government, Yang Runxiong, announced that all kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong will resume offline teaching in stages when the epidemic situation eases.
All school staff have completed two doses of the vaccine, and the two-dose vaccination rate of students has reached 90%. From April 19th, full-time offline classes can be resumed, otherwise only half-day offline classes can be resumed.
The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, said in response to a question from a reporter from the China Central Radio and Television Station that the suspension of the nationwide testing plan is to be more accurate, science-based, and to grasp the right time to respond to the epidemic.
At the same time, the SAR government will respond to the epidemic with more active and more precise measures, including expanding the scope of nucleic acid testing, and re-issue a mandatory testing announcement on the 22nd, requiring relevant persons who have visited designated locations to undergo new coronavirus nucleic acid testing.
Enclosed compulsory testing has also continued to be carried out simultaneously; enhanced medical support for people in home quarantine; called on regional groups to jointly distribute epidemic prevention service kits to all households in Hong Kong.
Carrie Lam also said that the SAR government will continue to respond to the recovery of Hong Kong's economy under the epidemic with "three pillars", including launching a total of six rounds of anti-epidemic funds; implementing the 2020 "employment protection" plan and the 2022 "employment protection" plan; Different economic relief measures have been introduced in this year's budget to help small and medium-sized enterprises, individual businesses and citizens tide over the difficulties.
(Headquarters reporter Zhou Weiqi and Wei Kefeng)