The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Center suggests that public departments and civil servants should resume work and provision of public services from tomorrow (8 October) in accordance with the Chief Executive’s Dispatch no. 110/CE/2021.

This suggestion was made following the Health Bureau’s assessment that the current risk of virus transmission in the community has decreased.

Upon the conclusion of the third round of citywide nucleic acid testing programme, all of the 681,579 people sampled from 9:00pm on 4 October to 9:00am today (7 October) have tested negative for the novel coronavirus; besides, there has been no new case of COVID-19 for days amid ongoing epidemiological investigation, monitoring and testing of close contacts, secondary close contacts and people with overlapped movements with the confirmed COVID-19 patients.