The Home Affairs Department (HAD) today (Mar. 8) said that it has been walking hand in hand with the public in the fight against the epidemic by providing a variety of anti-epidemic support services to the community through different channels, including for ethnic minorities. The population of ethnic minorities residing in Yau Tsim Mong District is the highest among the 18 districts.
The Yau Tsim Mong District Office (YTMDO) has been concerned about the needs of ethnic minorities and has been providing support to them in collaboration with various organizations in the district to fight against the epidemic. Such support includes distributing anti-epidemic supplies from the Central Government, providing anti-epidemic supplies packs to confirmed patients under home quarantine, organizing various vaccination events and promoting anti-epidemic messages to ethnic minorities through different channels.
On anti-epidemic supplies, the YTMDO has been distributing supplies from the Central Government, including COVID-19 rapid test kits, to ethnic minority residents, cleansing workers and property management staff working in buildings with more ethnic minority households at various places in the district. The District Officer (Yau Tsim Mong), Edward Yu, handed over rapid test kits in person to representatives of ethnic minority organizations at various locations for their distribution to members of their communities in the district.
In addition, the YTMDO has supported the Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon (LST) in launching a Stay Home Support Programme. The YTMDO has assisted in liaising with major district ethnic minority welfare organizations for case referrals, so as to distribute supplies packs (including halal food, disinfection supplies and rapid test kits) to ethnic minority families with confirmed patients under home quarantine.
To ensure that ethnic minorities can receive anti-epidemic information in a timely manner, the YTMDO has been translating important anti-epidemic messages into different ethnic minority languages and sending them to residents via different ethnic minority organizations. Apart from information about the Government's hotlines shared earlier, the YTMDO will disseminate key messages from the online information session organized in collaboration with various organizations lately in different ethnic minority languages.
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