The government is not considering bringing back the mask-wearing requirement, health secretary Lo Chung-mau said on Saturday, even though different data showed Covid-19 infections are on the rise in Hong Kong. <\/p>\n
Speaking on an i-Cable TV programme, the minister said it’s estimated that about 10,000 people are being infected daily based on the level of coronavirus detected in sewage… The government is not considering bringing back the mask-wearing requirement, health secretary Lo Chung-mau said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60521-no-plans-to-require-masks-amid-covid-surge-govt.jpg",287,215,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60521-no-plans-to-require-masks-amid-covid-surge-govt-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60521-no-plans-to-require-masks-amid-covid-surge-govt.jpg",287,215,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60521-no-plans-to-require-masks-amid-covid-surge-govt.jpg",287,215,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60521-no-plans-to-require-masks-amid-covid-surge-govt.jpg",287,215,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60521-no-plans-to-require-masks-amid-covid-surge-govt.jpg",287,215,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60521-no-plans-to-require-masks-amid-covid-surge-govt.jpg",287,215,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60521-no-plans-to-require-masks-amid-covid-surge-govt.jpg",287,215,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60521-no-plans-to-require-masks-amid-covid-surge-govt.jpg",287,215,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60521-no-plans-to-require-masks-amid-covid-surge-govt.jpg",287,215,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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