As the world confronts the evolving spread of COVID-19, governments are implementing strict measures to help limit the spread of the virus. In doing so they have to balance health and safety goals with the need for continued delivery of essential goods and services.
面對新型冠狀病毒（COVID-19）的全球性傳播，各國政府正在采取嚴格的措施，控制疫情擴散。為了共同抗擊疫情，他們需要平衡健康、安全目標，保障必要的物資及服務的持續供應。
The Global Lighting Association (GLA) urges authorities to ensure sustained access to lighting products during these challenging times by categorizing lighting as an essential product and ensuring lighting products can continue to be manufactured, supplied and sold.
全球照明協會（Global Lighting Association，GLA）敦促各國政府在這一充滿挑戰的時期將照明產品列為抗擊疫情的必要物資，確保其持續生產、運輸和銷售，保障照明產品的持續供給。
Lighting is a vital part of life, and availability of lighting products and services is essential, especially in the current situation.
照明是我們日常生活的重要組成部分，照明產品和服務是維系我們生活，特別是疫情期間正常生活的基礎。
Light is needed to functionally fulfil our daily duties at home, as well as in the places that are tasked with addressing and alleviating the current crisis, such as (emergency) hospitals, care centres, shops and distribution centres. Furthermore - and very importantly - in stressful times light can help comfort people, make them feel safe and contribute to their well-being.
照明能為我們居家日常生活提供便利，也能為緩解和克服當前危機的醫院、急診室、關懷中心、商店及物資分發中心等機構提供支持。除此之外，尤為重要的是，照明可以在緊張時期幫助人們緩解情緒，使人們感到安全和舒心。
The GLA believes that access to lighting products should not become a topic of concern during the COVID-19 pandemic and we urge authorities to classify lighting products as essential products in the context of any measures that would otherwise limit manufacturing, supply or sale of products.
全球照明協會相信，在抗擊新冠病毒疫情時期，照明產品的持續供給是一個毋庸置疑的需求。我們敦促各國政府將照明產品列為抗擊疫情的必要物資，并通過各項措施，取消對照明產品生產、運輸和銷售的限制。
About the Global Lighting Association
The Global Lighting Association is the voice of the lighting industry on a global basis. The primary mission of the GLA is to share information, within the limits of international competition law, on political, scientific, business, social and environmental issues of relevance to the lighting industry and to develop, implement and publish the position of the global lighting industry to relevant stakeholders in the international sphere.
關于全球照明協會
全球照明協會為全球照明產業發聲。協會的主要使命是分享信息，在國際競爭法律框架下將照明行業相關的政策、科學、業務、社交和環境問題上進行落實，并增強照明行業在全球相關領域的影響力。
