新冠疫情下的清明 掃墓者疏 Few Tomb Sweepers on Ching Ming amid Coronavirus Spread

今天是清明節,到跑馬地香港墳場的掃墓者人數稀疏,因為新冠狀病毒確診新増17例,總數達863。每年都有成千上萬的人到墳場紀念清明節,向他們的先人致敬。

今天是清明節,到跑馬地香港墳場的掃墓者人數稀疏,因為新冠狀病毒確診新増17例,總數達863。

每年都有成千上萬的人到墳場紀念清明節,並向他們的先人致敬。

政府一直在採取各種措施來減少在冠狀病毒爆發期間聚集太多人群,並呼籲掃墓者不要在墓地聚集在一起。

Fewer visitors are observed at Hong Kong Cementary in Happy Valley on Ching Ming Festival today as 17 new infections are recorded taking the total to 863.

Thousands visit cemeteries every year to mark the Ching Ming Festival and pay respects to their ancestors.

The government has been putting in place various measures to reduce people crowding together amid the coronavirus outbreak and  appealed to grave sweepers not to crowd together at cemeteries as they pay tribute to their ancestors.

楊必興 P H Yang