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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1992

TWO MORE AIDS CASES CONFIRMED

TWO MORE CASES OF AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME) WERE CONFIRMED AND ANOTHER SIX PERSONS INCLUDING TWO WOMEN WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST IN AUGUST, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY (FRIDAY).

TWO PREVIOUSLY DIAGNOSED AIDS PATIENTS DIED IN THE SAME MONTH.

THIS BRINGS TO 310 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV KONG WITH 68 CONFIRMED AIDS CASES.

INFECTED IN HONG

SO FAR, 43 PATIENTS HAVE DIED AND 25 OTHERS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR HAVE LEFT THE TERRITORY.

OF THE 310 HIV INFECTED, 61 WERE HAEMOPHILIACS, THE INFECTION SEXUALLY, SIX WERE DRUG ABUSERS AND THREE INFECTION THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION BEFORE 1985 WHEN SCREENING TEST WAS NOT AVAILABLE.

210 ACQUIRED ACQUIRED THE HIV ANTIBODY

FOR THE REMAINING 30, THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE WAS FOR CLASSIFICATION.

INADEQUATE

1985, A

UNDER THE HIV SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN TOTAL OF 245,735 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 AUGUST, 1,125,709 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED AND 26 DONORS WERE FOUND POSITIVE.

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$10B TO BE SPENT ON PUBLIC WORKS THIS YEAR

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THE

THE

GOVERNMENT IS TO SPEND MORE THAN $10 BILLION THIS YEAR ON PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME ON TOP OF THE EXPENDITURE ON THE NEW

AIRPORT RELATED PROJECTS.

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THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR WORKS, MR JAMES BLAKE, THE TRAINEES AND APPRENTICE GRADUATION CEREMONY OF A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY'S TRAINING SCHEME THIS (FRIDAY) EVENING.

COMMUNITY

MR BLAKE SAID NEW ROADS, BETTER SEWAGE AND DRAINAGE, SPACE WITH SHARED FACILITIES, SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, CLINICS AND MANY OTHER PROJECTS COULD BE FOUND IN THE MORE THAN 1,000 ITEMS ALREADY IN THE PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME.

/"THE GOVERNMENT