Tuesday 1 December 2020

The new normal: lock and release. Rinse and repeat. Forever

• Civil servants to work from home starting on Wednesday

• More venues such as game centres, theme parks, karaoke lounges and mahjong parlours to be closed for at least two weeks

• Only two people at a time allowed to gather in public or sit at a restaurant table

• Fixed penalty for violating social-distancing rules to be sharply increased

• Hotline to be set up for reporting offenders

• Two hotels to be designated solely for quarantine use

• Five more community testing centres to open this week, bringing total to 14 [Details]