Coronavirus: Hong Kong Jockey Club, telecoms firms team to give 20,000 elderly residents smartphones for using ‘Leave Home Safe’ app

About 20,000 underprivileged, elderly Hongkongers will soon be given smartphones and a year-long data plan so they can begin using the government’s mandatory coronavirus risk-exposure app.Confirming an earlier Post report, the Hong Kong Jockey Club on Tuesday said it had donated HK$27 million (US$3.46 million) worth of smartphones and mobile service plans to the elderly via a partnership with 12 non-government organisations and the city’s four mobile network service providers.The move came in…

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