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保安局表示，鑑於意大利的艾米利亞---羅馬涅、倫巴第和威尼托爆發2019冠狀病毒病個案引致健康風險，特區政府對這三個地區發出紅色外遊警示。 保安局指，艾米利亞---羅馬涅、倫巴第和威尼托地區包括博洛尼亞、米蘭、威尼斯及維羅納的2019冠狀病毒病個案數字持續及迅速上升，基於公共衞生考慮，決定向這三個地區發出紅色外遊警示。 基於安全理由，特區政府於1月10日對伊朗發出紅色外遊警示，而由於近日伊朗的2019冠狀病毒病個案數字持續及迅速上升，政府提醒公眾有關爆發冠狀病毒病個案及相關公共衞生風險。 特區政府呼籲計劃前赴上述意大利三個地區和伊朗的市民調整行程，如非必要，應避免前往。 至於身處羅馬涅、倫巴第和威尼托地區以及伊朗的人士，應留意當地政府公布，時刻佩戴外科口罩，盡量避免到訪當地醫療機構和人多擠迫地方。如發燒或咳嗽，應戴上外科口罩，立即通知酒店職員或旅遊領隊並盡快求診。 市民若必須前赴該三處或伊朗，應密切留意2019冠狀病毒病最新情況和衞生署的旅遊健康建議。回港後若出現發燒或其他病徵應立即求診，告訴醫生最近曾到訪的地方及有否接觸動物，並佩戴外科口罩直至回港後的14日，以防傳染他人。 身在意大利和伊朗的香港市民如需協助，可致電入境事務處協助在外香港居民小組24小時求助熱線（852）1868或與中國駐兩國大使館聯絡，電話號碼分別為（39）3939110852和（98）912-2176035。 因應韓國的2019冠狀病毒病個案數字持續及迅速上升，特區政府亦於2月24日對該國發出紅色外遊警示。
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2019年12月1日至2020年1月31日，沙特阿拉伯《国际卫生条例》国家归口单位报告了另外19例中东呼吸综合征感染病例，包括8例相关死亡。
Secure land and property rights are an essential aspect of planning for and delivering sustainable human settlements, as recognised in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and its New Urban Agenda. Secure land tenure schemes can play an especially important role in enabling households, communities and cities to adapt to climate change, for...
By Sophie Hares, UNDRR – Americas and the CaribbeanMenaced by increasingly violent hurricanes, Caribbean countries face an enormous bill to better protect themselves disasters and need to weave a web of financing options to help insulate against shocks, said speakers at a regional conference.
Boosting lackluster economic growth, ramping up insurance and disaster funds, and embracing the private sector would help bolster countries which needed to invest more in resilience, said speakers at the Comprehensive Disaster Management Conference (CDM11) in Sint Maarten.
"Budgeting for disaster should be a must for us all," said Silveria Jacobs, prime minister of Sint Maarten, which was ravaged by Hurricane Irma in 2017.
A common disaster fund and a joint insurance plan to protect the small businesses that drive local economies could help the region, she told the conference, organized by the Caribbean Disasters and Emergency Agency (CDEMA).
"Government cannot definitely not go it alone… Business resilience drives the economy which ensures that islands can bounce back even faster," said Jacobs, who urged more investment in resilient infrastructure.
With many countries heavily indebted, creating layers of risk financing was key if countries are to limit the economic impact of disasters, which could also include flooding, drought, tsunamis and seismic activity, said speakers.
Risk financing layers should include funds shaved from national budgets, paired with fast-paying parametric insurance and access to lines of credit, said Ming Zhang, World Bank regional practice manager for urban and disaster risk management.
While new insurance products could help protect livelihoods and the fishing industry in the event of disasters, there was more scope to expand insurance to include households and small businesses, said Zhang in an interview.
"You cannot set up a contingency fund to address a Category 5 hurricane," said Zhang, who estimates disasters cost the Caribbean 1 percent of its gross domestic product each year.
"You need a risk financing strategy… each country should look at different layers and different contingencies, insurance and other mechanisms."
While countries such as St. Lucia and Grenada were looking to set up disaster funds bolstered by lines of credit, there needs to be more focus on how money was being spent in the region to better prepare for disasters, he said.
More advanced recovery planning was needed to make sure emergency shelters and supplies were available, while strengthening homes and infrastructure could help reduce economic impact down the track, he said.
"In the midst of borrowing for public investment, governments need to ensure that these funds are certainly being spent to ensure resilience," said Ronald Jackson, CDEMA executive director, said in an interview.
"That's one area that will drive down exposure and be a lower cost to government when these events occur."
NO SILVER BULLET
Emergency cash payments to small businesses, farmers and the most vulnerable after hurricanes in Barbados and Dominica helped stimulate the local economies and get people back on their feet, said speakers.
But countries needed to ensure adequate systems were in place to disperse social protection payments to make sure they reach the right people as quickly as possible, they added.
"No single financial instrument is the solution, we have to adopt a risk layering approach," Nicholas Grainger, programme associate at the World Food Programme, told the conference.
Given the private sector shells out for up to 85 percent of all investment and absorbs the lion's share of disaster losses, businesses should be closer involved in trying to driving down risk and promoting economic resilience, said speakers.
"It's very clear that reducing disaster risk cannot be done by one actor or sector alone," Nahuel Arenas, Deputy Chief of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean, told the conference.
"Resilient investment is about integrating risk through business practices and investment decisions."
The UNDRR-backed business network, known as The Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies or ARISE, is growing quickly in the Caribbean where companies are increasingly aware that disaster risk reduction (DRR) makes sound business sense, said speakers.
Jeffrey Beckles, chief executive of the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce, said the private sector wanted a greater role in DRR given it was a major employer and driver of growth.
It also has a lot to lose. Businesses suffered some 90 percent of the massive losses in the Bahamas caused by Hurricane Dorian in September, he added.
"We bring to the table the ability to look further down the road than any single administration," Beckles told the conference.
"We bring to the table a much deeper, wider capacity for casting a longer-term strategy for resiliency and prospects for our country's stability,"
Developing the digital and blue economies, while finding ways to expand the benefits of industries such as tourism could help bolster the region's economy and ultimately make households more resilient, said speakers.
"Resilient people build resilient lives, and resilient communities and economies," said Sint Maarten's Jacobs.
Related links
https://www.cdema.org/cdm11/
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/caribbean
https://cdema.org/
https://www.wfp.org/
https://www.thebahamaschamber.com/
