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SWD to distribute blankets to street sleepers
The Social Welfare Department (SWD) will distribute blankets to street sleepers in a territory-wide operation tonight (Thursday).
"It is a normal practice for the department to distribute blankets to street sleepers when the temperature drops below or near 10 degrees Celsius," a spokesman for the department said.
It will be the fifth such exercise during the current winter season. The most recent one was conducted last Saturday (February 17).
Meanwhile, SWD will provide blankets through various channels to single elderly people who are in need of extra blankets during the current cold spell.
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Water storage figure
Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Thursday) stood at 79.5 per cent of capacity or 465.990 million cubic metres.
This time last year the reservoirs contained 405.650 million cubic metres of water, representing 69.2 per cent of capacity.
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