Hong Kong civil servants to start returning to work from next week

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HONG KONG (The Straits Times/ANN): The city’s leader on Tuesday (April 28) announced that most of the civil servants will return to their offices to work from next week and government services are to resume normal operating hours, as the coronavirus pandemic appear to be under control.

Speaking ahead of her weekly executive council meeting, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said this would be done in two phases.

Lam said the government is reviewing the situation and will decide if the current social distancing measures should be eased. "But once we relax the rules, if there’s a need, we have to tighten them again and we can only relax when there is a vaccine and the majority of the population has immunity.”The decision to allow government staff back into offices comes as Hong Kong recorded no new case for a second consecutive day on Monday, with the rise in infections hovering at single digits.

Pressure has been mounting for the government to relax social distancing measures in light of the low number of new Covid-19 cases.

 

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