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Secretary for Food & Health Prof Sophia Chan today said that the Government's anti-epidemic strategy is based on public health factors and not on other considerations.

Prof Chan made the statement at a press conference in the afternoon in response to a reporter’s question about whether the Government is extending anti-epidemic measures to prevent protests from taking place.

She reiterated that the Government will come up with different strategies and adjust measures upon reviewing the local and global pandemic situations.

“Just most recently we have a local cluster developed and we actually are very, very concerned about this local cluster because it appears that we have this local cluster after about 15 days of no local cases.

“Basically if you talk about Cap 599G and also Cap 599F, we are now keeping the status quo. That is, for those measures that we have put in place under Cap 599G and Cap 599F, we will keep it for another 14 days.”

Prof Chan added that the Government has the responsibility to deal with the local cluster.

“So therefore, we are looking into and considering the different factors based on public health and not other considerations.”