March 12, 2022 Notwithstanding that the vaccination rate in Hong Kong is as high as 90%, the rate amongst ethnic minorities is relatively low. Nixie Lam, DAB Legislative Council Member for Election Committee constituency, learned earlier that female Muslims gave up getting vaccinations due to religious restriction on rolling up their sleeves in public place. After getting the assistance of the Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen on deploying a team of all-f

Mar 11, 2022 While Hong Kong spares no effort in fighting this epidemic, many national leaders including Vice Premier Mr. Han Zheng and Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Aff airs Office of the State Council Mr. Xia Bao Long have repeatedly expressed their concern, sincere care and encouragement for all Hong Kong people through the Hong Kong deputies to National People’s Con

Mar 1, 2022 Considering the severity of the epidemic situation in Hong Kong, the DAB Legislative Council members (Election Committee) support the SAR Government in carrying out Compulsory Universal Testing (CUT) with the assistance of the nation and recommend the following measures: In order to get better results, a lockdown should be imposed during CUT. Residents must stay at home except for going out for testing, or shopping at designated places, or seeking medical attenti

Mar 1, 2022 The government announced that the Compulsory Universal Testing (CUT) will be conducted in March, but the specific details are yet to be announced. In order to collect people’s views on Compulsory Universal Testing, the DAB Legislative Council member (New Territories North) Lau Kwok Fan conducted an online survey and received more than 13,000 responses within two days. Summary of the survey 90% agreed that the CUT should be carried out by district, while 10% agree

Feb 28, 2022 Due to the increasing severity of the epidemic, an accumulation of dead bodies occurred at hospitals and public mortuaries. In addition, the unclear dissemination of government's information gave chance to some troublemakers to spread false information on the Internet and social platforms in an attempt to attack the government and weaken the anti-epidemic effort, causing panic amongst people. In order to properly handle the above problems, the DAB requires the

Feb 28, 2022 A large number of patients including elderly were still waiting outside the Accident & Emergency (A&E) of Caritas Medical Centre in the past two days due to the flow of patients was stymied by the shortage of ambulances or non-emergency service vehicles. Legislative Council member (Kowloon West) Vincent Cheng requested the authority to take decisive measures, such as to increase or allocate manpower, to borrow rehabuses or vehicles adapted for use to transfer in

Feb 26, 2022 The Government announced at 10:30pm last night via a press release that 19 mobile specimen collection stations will cease operation today. As a result, the public was unable to grasp the new policy and went to the collection stations which ceased operation. DAB Legislative Council member (New Territories North) Lau Kwok Fan reprimanded the government for not using a more open and clear way, such as in a press conference, to explain substantial changes to the ex

The 48th UN Human Rights Council Side Meeting in Geneva discusses the situation in Hong Kong