Speaking to an RTHK radio program, Law said it was still too risky to open indoor venues like gyms. If you consider the restaurant thing and you definitely know that [for] people in Hong Kong, eating out is so much part of the social fabric and daily life of people in Hong Kong, so to speak. Law said Hong Kong doesn't have the systems to allow quick payments to the unemployed directly. You actually have your restaurant closed for a month's time, you don't have any business at all. Can you still ask all your employees come back to a closed restaurant?

Source: The Standard August 27, 2020 07:30 UTC