Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) together with the Department of Health in Hong Kong inoculated Overseas Filipino Workers with free influenza vaccine last Oct. 10. This is the third year of services to the Filipino Community in Hong Kong. The Seasonal Influenza Vaccination program of the Hong K...
Health Authorities confirmed eight imported Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong on Thursday, one of which is a Filipino. The 39-year-old Filipino domestic worker tested positive for Covid-19 while under quarantine at Penny's Bay. She arrived in Hong Kong on Oct. 3 via Cathay Pacific Air CX906 flight. She was found with a L452r variant of the coronavi...
Health Authorities confirmed the arrival of the fourth batch of CoronaVac Vaccines in Hong Kong from Beijing. In a government announcement, about 800,000 vaccines were received and was carried out for stringent checking and inspection in accordance with the procedures. This is to ensure that they comply with the product specifications and tha...
Health Authorities announced that there is no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. The cases in Hong Kong remained at 12,227, with 213 deaths, and 11,909 discharged.
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October 3, 2021
Two Indonesian Domestic Workers were jailed by the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts on Sept. 29 for engaging in an unregistered dentistry. In a government announcement, the Immigration Department investigators said they conducted a series if investigation in mid-April this year and arrested four domestic workers suspected of renting a room during th...
In a government announcement, persons born in 1959 can now apply to JoyYou card starting Friday. The JoyYou Card is a personalized Octopus Card tailor-made for the Government Public Transport Fare Concession Scheme for the Elderly and Eligible Persons with Disabilities. Eligible persons can apply by posting the application forms or via the Oc...
A 71-year-old man who violated the Compulsory Quarantine of Certain Persons Arriving at Hong Kong Regulation was disciplined by the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts on Sept. 30. The quarantine violator received a 10 days’ imprisonment and was suspended for 12 months after leaving his place on June 25, without a reasonable excuse or permissio...
One lucky Filipina domestic worker won HK$15,000 worth of vouchers from the online raffle draw of #goodShot Lucky Draw, claiming the vouchers on Wednesday. Armela dela China, got her two doses of BioNTech vaccine for Covid-19 at the Community vaccination center at St. Paul’s Hospital on June 3 and June 25, and was entitled to join online raffl...
Some Filipino domestic workers who were unable to register last Sunday, Sept. 26 returned on Monday, to complete their duty to vote in the 2022 National Election. Lorie, one of the domestic workers in line, said she went to the Philippine Consulate with her friends during their day off last Sunday, to register to vote. She said they got to th...
