Attention duty announcers, radio and TV stations:

Please broadcast the following message as soon as possible and repeat it at suitable intervals:

     Starting from 5pm today (July 27), Police conducted a dispersal operation eastward in Yuen Long. The operation is still ongoing and tear gas has been used.

     Violent clashes broke out at various locations in Yuen Long as some protestors removed fences from the kerbside and used mill barriers to block roads. Some hurled bricks and hard objects at Police officers and charged Police cordon lines. To prevent further deterioration of the situation, Police appeal to members of the public to leave in the eastern direction, towards MTR Yuen Long station, and avoid travelling to Yuen Long area.
     
 

     Yuen Long Police Station Report Room service has resumed normal.

     The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health today (July 27) reported two suspected cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and again urged the public to pay special attention to safety during travel, taking due consideration of the health risks in the places they visit. The cases are detailed below:
 

     "Travellers to the Middle East should avoid going to farms, barns or markets with camels; avoid contact with sick persons and animals, especially camels, birds or poultry; and avoid unnecessary visits to healthcare facilities. We strongly advise travel agents organising tours to the Middle East to abstain from arranging camel rides and activities involving direct contact with camels, which are known risk factors for acquiring MERS Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)," a spokesman for the CHP said.

     Locally, the CHP's surveillance with public and private hospitals, with practising doctors and at boundary control points is firmly in place. Inbound travellers and members of the public who recently visited the Middle East and developed fever or lower respiratory symptoms within 14 days will be classified as suspected MERS cases. They will be taken to public hospitals for isolation and management until their specimens test negative for MERS-CoV.

     Travellers to affected areas should maintain vigilance, adopt appropriate health precautions and take heed of personal, food and environmental hygiene. The public may visit the MERS pages of the CHP and its Travel Health Service, MERS statistics in affected areas, the CHP's Facebook Page and YouTube Channel, and the World Health Organization's latest news for more information and health advice. Tour leaders and tour guides operating overseas tours are advised to refer to the CHP's health advice on MERS.

     The Immigration Department announces that due to special incidents occurred in Yuen Long, Yuen Long Smart Identity Card Replacement Centre located at Manhattan Plaza, Sai Ching Street, Yuen Long has been closed earlier today at 5.10 pm. Members of the public may consider proceeding to Yuen Long Smart Identity Card Replacement Centre in the days ahead, or to other 8 replacement centres today for registration of identity card.  The 8 replacement centres will operate until 10 pm as normal. Their addresses and telephone numbers are as follows:
 

     A man who went missing in Kawi Chung was located.

     Tse On, aged 88, went missing after he left an elderly home on Wo Tong Tsui Street on July 25 morning. Staff of the elderly home made a report to Police on the same day.

     The man was located in a hospital on Gascoigne Road yesterday afternoon (July 26). No suspicious circumstances were detected.