Public services such as road tests for drivers and selections of flats would resume in the first stage of resumption from Monday. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department will re-open some of its outdoor facilities including tennis courts and jogging tracks in sports grounds, the government said. The Housing Authority will gradually resume flat selections for the Home Ownership Scheme 2019, and the Transport Department will resume road tests for driving examinations and the Social Welfare Department will resume normal opening hours of social security field units and work with NGOs with a view to progressively resuming home-based and community-based services for the elderly and persons with disabilities that have been scaled down or suspended. Still, people are being encouraged to continue to use services via telephone calls or on line. Resumption of public services under the first phase will be subject to social distancing and precautionary measures such as flexible working hours and lunch hours of government employees; video conferencing instead of face-to-face meetings where possible; keeping physical distances or using physical partitioning among staff and between staff and clients.

Source: The Standard April 28, 2020 06:17 UTC