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Secretary for Food & Health Prof Sophia Chan today said scheduled premises under the Prevention & Control of Disease (Requirements & Directions) (Business & Premises) Regulation (Cap 599F) will be required to display the QR code linked to the LeaveHomeSafe mobile app for the public to use.

At a media session this afternoon, Prof Chan noted the scheduled premises should register for their QR codes by December 3.

“We are planning to put in Cap 599F a condition on scheduled premises as one of the conditions that they have to follow - just like taking temperature, providing hand sanitisers and so on.

“The premises would have to have this QR code for people to scan when they enter or go to those premises. Of course, in the interim, the direction is for those premises to put up the QR code for the people.”

Prof Chan also said the Government would promote wider use of the mobile app to facilitate contact tracing.

“But whether people would actually use it, we would try our best to promote its use. I am sure those premises will also promote it to the customers because it is ultimately in the best interest of the person.

“If they actually get on with it, they would know if a confirmed COVID-19 patient has been to the scheduled premises or that particular premise that they have been to. They would know and be alerted so that they would note their own physical condition and also their own health condition.”

She added that virus testing facilities are all very accessible in the community and those who are concerned could go and get tested.