Priority given to livelihood issues in HK

Public housing, epidemic control and tourism recovery among key tasks

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has given the greatest priority to livelihood matters since taking office and will discuss the seven most important issues for his administration during his first Legislative Council Question and Answer session on Wednesday.

Talking to journalists before his first meeting with Executive Council members on Tuesday, Lee said he had set up two task forces to deal with public housing issues, as promised in his policy platform, and one of them will submit a report in the first 100 days of his administration.

To balance the demands of controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and encouraging a recovery in tourism, Lee said he had asked Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau to review anti-COVID strategies and explore the possibility of shortening the quarantine period to reduce inconvenience for visitors.