Attention duty announcers, radio and TV stations:

Please broadcast the following special announcement immediately, and repeat it at frequent intervals:

     "The Social Welfare Department announces that as Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No. 8 will be issued, all welfare services units of the department, units providing child care centre services, services under the Neighbourhood Support Child Care Project, and after school care programmes for pre-primary or primary school children, elderly services centres, day pre-school rehabilitation services units and day rehabilitation units including sheltered workshops, integrated vocational rehabilitation services centres, integrated vocational training centres and day activity centres will be closed. Members of the public who have taken their children and family members to those centres or units are advised to make arrangements for their safe return home as soon as possible."

Ends/Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Issued at HKT 12:20

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