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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1994

39 REO COMPUTER DISCS INFECTED BY VIRUS

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PRESS ENQUIRIES,

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FOR TO

SPOKESMAN IN RESPONSE REGISTRATION AND ELECTORAL OFFICE SAID TONIGHT (THURSDAY) THAT SO

ΤΟ CANDIDATES 39 COMPUTER DISCS OF REGISTER OF ELECTORS DISTRIBUTED

FOUND TO HAVE BEEN OF THE SEPTEMBER DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS WERE INFECTED BY COMPUTER VIRUS - GENB.

BEEN TAKEN SCANNING AND REPLACEMENT OF

THE SPOKESMAN SAID IMMEDIATE REMEDIAL ACTIONS HAVE TO ALERT CANDIDATES AND TO ARRANGE FOR THE COMPUTER DISCs.

SITE INSPECTIONS WILL ALSO BE MADE WHERE NECESSARY.

OF

EACH CANDIDATE HAS ALSO HE SAID APART FROM THE SOFT COPIES, RECEIVED A HARD COPY OF THE RELEVANT EXTRACT OF THE FINAL REGISTER ELECTORS BASED ON WHICH HE CAN MAKE PREPARATORY ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTIONEERING ACTIVITIES.

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GRADING OF BEACH WATER QUALITY

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT TODAY (THURSDAY) BATHING ANNOUNCED GRADES ON THE BACTERIOLOGICAL WATER QUALITY OF ALL BEACHES IN HONG KONG.

THE PURPOSE OF THE GRADING SYSTEM IS TO INFORM SWIMMERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE STATE OF BACTERIOLOGICAL POLLUTION AT VARIOUS BEACHES.

A SPOKESMAN FOR

THE DEPARTMENT SAID THE GRADING WOULD BE TO COINCIDE WITH THE ANNOUNCED BI-WEEKLY DURING THE BATHING SEASON FREQUENCY AT WHICH BEACH WATERS WERE USUALLY SAMPLED.

THE GRADING IS BASED ON THE MOST RECENT E COLI DATA OBTAINED BY THE DEPARTMENT IN ITS ROUTINE MONITORING PROGRAMME.

AS WITH LAST YEAR, THE GRADING ALSO INCLUDES AN ESTIMATE OF THE A RISK OF SUFFERING SOME MINOR SKIN OR GASTROINTESTINAL COMPLAINTS AS RESULT OF SWIMMING AT A BEACH WHICH HAS SOME DEGREE OF POLLUTION.

LARGE BODY THE ESTIMATE IS BASED ON A VERY

OF STATISTICAL INFORMATION GATHERED IN HONG KONG IN RECENT BATHING SEASONS.

SUMMER. THIS THE GRADING OF SOME BEACHES MAY VARY DURING THE

THE BACTERIOLOGICAL QUALITY OF REPRESENTS A NATURAL FLUCTUATION IN

BRING MORE OR LESS BATHING WATERS IN MOST CASES, AS RAIN AND TIDES POLLUTION TO THE BEACHES.

HOWEVER, THE GRADES GIVE A GOOD GENERAL PICTURE OF QUALITY AT BATHING BEACHES AT THE TIME OF REPORTING AND FORM THE AVAILABLE FORECAST FOR THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE.

HIGHLY

THE WATER BEST

BE

WITH BEACHES

ΤΟ DEVELOPED HINTERLANDS ARE LIKELY MORE POLLUTED THAN THE GRADES SUGGEST DURING AND AFTER HEAVY RAIN.

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