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The following is issued on behalf of the Family Council:
 
     Students, parents and schools were commended today (January 4) at the award presentation ceremony of “The But’s Family Inter-school Colouring Competition for Kindergarten Students and Picture Composition Competition for Primary School Students” co-organised by the Home Affairs Bureau and the Family Council.
 
     Speaking at the ceremony, the Chairman of the Family Council, Professor Daniel Shek, said the Family Council aims to promote the culture of loving families to students of kindergartens, primary schools and their parents through the competition. The competition was well received, with more than 19,000 entries submitted under three categories, namely Kindergarten, Junior Primary and Senior Primary. For each category, an adjudication panel selected a champion, a first runner-up, a second runner-up and 10 merit awardees. The schools with the highest number of entries for each category received “The Most Active Participating School Award”. As well, a public voting exercise was held on the Facebook page of the Family Council from October to November 2019. The top three entries in each category with the most votes received “The Most Liked Award”. The awardees’ lists have been uploaded onto the Council’s Happy Family Info Hub.
 
     The Family Council also launched a storybook, “The Secret of the But’s Dinner” at the ceremony. Written by experienced parent-child relationship expert Ms Shirley Loo and designed by local illustrator Ms Jan Koon, the storybook is suitable for reading by children under the guidance of their parents or elder family members. The story is a rich and light-hearted tale, designed to illustrate the importance of communication among family members and the sharing of love with each other. The e-version and theme song of the storybook and interactive activity book have been uploaded onto the Council’s Happy Family Info Hub to create more common topics and foster exchanges between parents and their children to help build a more intimate relationship. The storybook will also be distributed free of charge to the libraries of all kindergartens and primary schools in Hong Kong.
 
     A series of storytelling workshops for the storybook, “The Secret of the But’s Dinner”, will be arranged for kindergarten students from January to March 2020. Each workshop will include a storytelling session, interactive games, theme song singing and more to strengthen students’ understanding of family core values such as “Love and Care”. Members of the public are welcome to visit the Council’s Happy Family Info Hub and the Council’s Facebook page for details of the publicity event and other upcoming family programmes as well as family-related information.

      

     Following is the transcript of remarks made by the Secretary for Food and Health, Professor Sophia Chan, after attending a radio programme today (January 4): Reporter: Regarding the new response plan for new infectious … read more

     Police advise motorists that special traffic arrangements will be implemented in Sha Tin to facilitate the race meeting tomorrow (January 5).      The arrangements will come into effect two hour… read more

The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:        During the winter surge, the Hospital Authority is closely monitoring the service demand of Accident and Emergency Departments and the occupancy rates in pub… read more

     The Government today (January 4) launched the Preparedness and Response Plan for Novel Infectious Disease of Public Health Significance (The Plan). In parallel, the Serious Response Level was activated with immediate effect.
 
     The Plan sets out the Government’s preparedness and response plan in case of an outbreak of Novel Infectious Disease of Public Health Significance. A three-tier response level is adopted in the plan. Three response levels, namely Alert, Serious and Emergency, will be activated based on the risk assessment of the Novel Infectious Disease of Public Health Significance that may affect Hong Kong and its health impact on the community.
 
     Upon the risk assessment of the cluster of cases of viral pneumonia with unknown cause in Wuhan reported by the National Health Commission, the Serious Response Level was activated. Under the Serious Response Level, the immediate health impact caused by Novel Infectious Disease of Public Health Significance on local population is moderate.
 
     ” ‘Novel Infectious Disease of Public Health Significance’ refers to any infectious disease caused by a pathogen unknown to cause human disease before, but may have changed its property to cause human infection with or without the ability of efficient human-to-human transmission. The disease has the potential to lead to international spread and public health emergency. The current cluster of viral pneumonia cases in Wuhan can be regarded as a Novel Infectious Disease of Public Health Significance,” a spokesman for the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health said.
 
     “The Government will assess the risk from time to time in view of the latest scientific evidence and situation, activate or deactivate the response level and implement corresponding measures,” the spokesman said.
 
     For more information, please refer to the Plan which has been uploaded to the CHP’s website (www.chp.gov.hk/files/pdf/govt_preparedness_and_response_plan_for_novel_infectious_disease_of_public_health_significance_eng.pdf). read more