Health chief points to ‘worrying’ increase in teenage use of e-cigarettes, whose sale is already illegal.
Alvis Lo Iek Long
Younger generation urged to distinguish between right and wrong, strive for self-improvement, adhere to virtue and grasp opportunities.
World Health Organization warns China’s zero-case strategy is unsustainable and shifting strategies is of utter importance.
Plans include closing schools and public venues, home delivery of essential supplies, reducing bus services and tightening entry procedures.
Worst-case scenario envisages entire population joining battle against virus with enforced mass lockdowns and temporary medical facilities built in days.
Patients, medical professionals and government administrators all find the new scheme, which encourages residents to take care of themselves, much more convenient.
Scores of children and seniors in quarantine in Macao; health workers bracing for discovery of more novel coronavirus cases across the border.
Classes will continue as normal for primary and secondary pupils, unlike higher education students who must be vaccinated or take a weekly test for Covid-19.
Health chief promises users can decide whether to scan QR codes, and travel history records will be not be uploaded to bureau’s database.