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Hong Kong has made significant public health contributions Electronic wristbands and
to the global fight against COVID-19 through world-class "StayHome Safe" mobile app
scientific research and cutting edge technology. The Government developed wristband is damaged or
electronic wristbands, paired with removed without permission,
the “StayHomeSafe” mobile app, to the monitoring system will
monitor people under compulsory notify the relevant department
quarantine to ensure that they will for follow up. The electronic
not leave the premises without wristband monitoring system was
authorisation. In case the person awarded a Gold Medal at the
subject to compulsory quarantine International Exhibition of
leaves the premise without
authorisation or the electronic Inventions of Geneva in 2021.
#SECURE
Locally developed facemasks to tame COVID-19
To guard against COVID-19 and provide a more
environment-friendly alternative to disposal masks, the
Government distributed the reusable CuMask+™ to
7.5 million residents for free. Awarded a Gold Medal
at the International Exhibition of Inventions of
Geneva in 2018, the CuMask+™, developed by
the Hong Kong Research Institute
of Textiles and Apparel, is effective
for 60 washes. In addition, the Nano "LeaveHomeSafe" mobile app
and Advanced Materials Institute The “LeaveHomeSafe” mobile app allows members of the public to record
developed the world's first nanofiber the place and time of their visits by scanning venue QR codes. If it is found
N99 mask, NASK, which is a super that an infected person has visited the same venue at about the same time,
breathable facemask with bacteria the app will issue relevant health advice to the users concerned to increase
killing property and effective in their vigilance so as to minimise the risk of further transmission of the virus.
filtering over 99% of the particulate
matters.
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