CGTN
Carrie Lam, chief executive of China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), has said that the HKSAR government will leverage the central authorities’ support and spare no effort to combat COVID-19. Lam said in a statement on Sunday night that assuming the primary responsibility for the fight against the epidemic, the HKSAR government will implement the strategy of “preventing the importation of cases and the spread of the virus in the community” in pursuit of “dynamic zero infection.” The HKSAR government will leverage the central authorities’ guidance based on their experience in fighting the epidemic, as well as their manpower and resource support, to further boost Hong Kong’s capability of “early identification, early isolation and early treatment” of the infected, she said. Lam expressed gratitude to the central authorities for strongly supporting HKSAR, saying that since the onset of the fifth wave of the epidemic, the central authorities have conveyed to her on various occasions their care for the people of Hong Kong and their full support for the city’s anti-epidemic efforts. Promptly following up on consensus and achievements from the second Mainland-Hong Kong thematic meeting on COVID-19 epidemic on February 12, Lam held an internal high-level meeting on February 13 and appointed convenors from the HKSAR government for five task forces. The convenors will coordinate with representatives of relevant ministries and commissions of the central authorities, as well as the Guangdong provincial government, to press ahead with the implementation work to tackle the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong.
