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Carrie Lam to not run for a second term

Politics

Aaron Busch @tripperhead

⚠️ Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces she will not to run again for CE. She will retire from public service after 42 years.

3:02 AM ∙ Apr 4, 2022

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Yesterday came the big announcement: Carrie Lam will not be rerunning for her position as Chief Executive in the upcoming election. She said family and personal reasons influenced this decision:

"This is not a question of evaluating my performance or the performance of the Hong Kong SAR Government in this term. This is a question of my personal wish and aspiration, and my personal wish and aspiration is entirely based on my family's consideration.”

— Chief Executive Carrie “family first” Lam

She will end her five-year term on 30 June and her 42 years of public service. Check out Hong Kong Free Press’ article for reactions from different political players to this announcement.

Are you surprised by her decision? Why or why not? Regardless of what you think of her term, all I’m going to say is I’d have made the same decision.

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Korean Air flights suspended after finding positive cases

COVID-19

Hong Kong SAR Government News @newsgovhk

The Centre for Health Protection says it is investigating 3,138 additional #COVID19 cases, of which 1,589 were detected by nucleic acid tests and 1,549 were identified via rapid antigen tests

news.gov.hkHK sees 3,138 COVID-19 casesThe Centre for Health Protection says it is investigating 3,138 additional COVID-19 cases, of which 1,589 were detected by nucleic acid tests and 1,549 were identified via rapid antigen tests.

12:43 PM ∙ Apr 4, 2022

COVID-19 in Hong Kong

• New cases: 3,183

• Deaths: 90

• Testing is required for people who were present at 25 specified places (see the Annex for details).

Lockdown updates

• 35 cases found after overnight lockdowns in Kwun Tong and Tin Shui Wai.

Korean Air flights arriving from Seoul have been suspended until Sunday, 10 April, as three passengers tested positive for COVID-19 after landing in HK on Saturday.

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