Coronavirus: Hong Kong Jockey Club, telecoms firms team to give 20,000 elderly residents smartphones for using 'Leave Home Safe' app | South China Morning Post

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 response to a government call for the donation of smartphones to those without them after the use of the "Leave Home Safe" app became…