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CS promotes support for DC election

With only 11 days left before the District Council (DC) election, Chief Secretary Chan Kwok-ki and Secretary for the Civil Service Ingrid Yeung today visited the Queensway Government Offices to promote the election to colleagues and urge them to vote with family and friends on December 10.   Also joining the visit were representatives from the four civil service central consultative councils and the four major service-wide staff unions.   Mr Chan said civil servants are determined to organise a decent DC election and have encouraged colleagues to vote together with friends and relatives, so as to discharge their civic responsibility as well as support and accomodate the Government's governance.   “I have visited and talked to colleagues from various government departments in the hope of continuing to widely disseminate the important message of supporting the DC election and voting together among civil servants,” he added.   The DC geographical constituencies, inform
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SMS test result discrepancy handled

The Hospital Authority today said it was notified by the COVID-19 test service vendor that some members of the public received the wrong specimen bottle number in the SMS messages concerning their test results.   As a result, these people could not log in to the government’s electronic testing record system to download their test results.   To tie in with the Centre for Health Protection’s Enhanced Laboratory Surveillance Programme, the authority contracted a test service vendor to arrange COVID-19 tests and provide the negative result notifications via SMS.           The authority said the incident was caused by a specimen bottle number discrepancy during the test result information handling process.   The 103 people who were affected returned their specimen bottles to general outpatient clinics on March 2. All the test results came back negative.   The vendor confirmed that neither personal data nor privacy was involved in the discrepancy and no test result was affected.        Upon receiving the notification yesterday, the authority requested the vendor to inform those affected and send an amendment SMS immediately.   It also tasked the vendor with reviewing the system and fixing the error.   The incident was reported to the Food & Health Bureau and the Department of Health.
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