Thank you, Madam Chair. The Minister was right that the majority of the cost here is isolation centres, and that's why the number's been high kind of 2021 when we had a significant demand due to travelers and isolation centres. At the end of 2020, we brought in the isolation payment policy that significantly reduced the usage of isolation centres. So even though there's more months of usage for, yeah, the 2021-2022 fiscal year, the total of dollar amount did not go up that much and in fact, our expenditures will be significantly less than the line item that's here because we've been able to control the use of isolation centres. And then the amount for 2023 was the notional amount that we had when we originally set up the COVID Secretariat, we set aside for isolation centres and obviously that money would be used to -- as part of the response to the endemic phase that the government will be moving into. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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