mid growing outcry over aSpeaking at a weekly briefing, Mrs Lam said there were two investigations - one into the birthday party of Professor Witman Hung, a Hong Kong Deputy to the 13th National People’s Congress or Chinese parliament, and the other into carrier Cathay Pacific.So far, health officials said 214 guests, including 14 senior government officials and 20 lawmakers, had attended the Jan 3 birthday bash when the rules then allowed banquets of up to 200.
As for Cathay Pacific, Mrs Lam said: “This has to be put under full investigation and we will take the legal action once we have the full evidence of what wrong it has gone into.” She said there have been over 200 cases of non-compliance with home quarantine orders and most of these offenders received jail terms of between seven and 14 days.
Among the guests were two ministers – Home Affairs Secretary Caspar Tsui and Secretary for Financial Services and Treasury Christopher Hui – and lawmakers of the newly formed Legislative Council, all of whom tested negative. Between Dec 30 and Jan 10, there were 354 confirmed cases, of which 312 were imported and 40 were linked to imported cases, said Mrs Lam, who defended the government’s aggressive quarantine rules.
straits_times Wake up! Don’t be stubborn. Recognize your mistakes and change course. It’s not too late. Remove vaccine mandates. Remove a vaccine differentiated society. Don’t experiment on my kids.
straits_times Well done, Carrie Lam. Keep it up. 😁🇺🇸🇯🇵🇮🇳🇦🇺🇹🇼
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