TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1992
MR LAI ALSO INDICATED THAT OVER 170,000
APPLICATION FORMS WOULD BE POSTED TO PERSONS ON THE MAILING LIST FOR URBAN COUNCIL AND REGIONAL COUNCIL PUBLICATIONS AND TO SOME DRIVING LICENCE HOLDERS AND VEHICLE OWNERS WHO ARE NOT YET ENROLLED AS ELECTORS.
MR LAI URGED REGISTERED ELECTORS TO REPORT CHANGES OF THEIR RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, BY FILLING IN A REGISTRATION FORM OR WRITING то THE REGISTRATION AND ELECTORAL OFFICE.
"OVER 98,000 POLL CARDS WERE RETURNED UNDELIVERED IN THE 1991 ELECTIONS. EFFORTS WOULD BE MADE TO TRACE THE ELECTORS CONCERNED. IF NO CONTACT COULD BE RE-ESTABLISHED, SUCH ELECTORS WOULD BE EXCLUDED FROM THE REGISTER, " HE SAID.
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FOUR MORE HIV CARRIERS FOUND
ONE MORE WOMAN WAS FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST LAST MONTH (FEBRUARY), BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV INFECTED WOMEN TO 11, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY
(TUESDAY).
REVIEWING THE LATEST SITUATION OF AIDS, THE SPOKESMAN SAID APART FROM THE WOMAN, THREE MEN WERE TESTED HIV POSITIVE LAST MONTH. THIS BROUGHT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV INFECTED IN HONG KONG TO 272.
NO NEW AIDS CASES WERE REPORTED DURING THE SAME PERIOD AND THE NUMBER OF CONFIRMED AIDS CASES REMAINED AT 61.
SO FAR, 40 AIDS PATIENTS HAVE DIED AND 21 OTHERS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR HAVE LEFT THE TERRITORY.
OF THE 272 HIV INFECTED, 60 WERE HAEMOPHILIACS, 179 ACQUIRED THE INFECTION SEXUALLY, FIVE WERE DRUG ABUSERS AND THREE ACQUIRED INFECTION THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION.
FOR THE REMAINING 25, THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE WAS INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION, HE ADDED.
UNDER THE HIV SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN 1985, A TOTAL OF 226,897 BLOOD SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY.
THE HONG KONG RED CROSS BLOOD TRANSFUSION
SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.
SERVICE HAS ALSO
UP TO LAST MONTH, 1,038,767 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED AND 18 DONORS WERE FOUND POSITIVE.
/AIDS VIRUS