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Utility bills, hospital visit records can be used as proof of residency in Hong Kong for appeals over HK$5,000 voucher scheme, finance chief says
Financial Secretary Paul Chan says applicants can use documents such as salary payment slips, rental tenancies as proof of residency, and those without can state reasons in their appeals. Read…
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Hong Kong hotelier hopes for restriction-free travel as industry slowly returns to pre-pandemic heyday across the world
Ovolo Hotels founder Girish Jhunjhnuwala says that Hong Kong must allow restriction-free travel as the rest of the world has. In the meantime, he is plotting the group’s expansion in…
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Coronavirus: US and Europe fail to shake off Covid-19 as variant fuels summer spike
The Super-transmissible BA.5 subvariant of Omicron is fuelling a fresh increase in infections, with cases climbing across the UK, the continent and the US. Read the original article at South…
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AMA welcomes Albanese’s decision to extend Covid-19 pandemic leave payments after national cabinet meets
Prime minister Anthony Albanese says support will continue until the end of September amid winter Covid wave set to peak in August Katharine Murphy: Labor must reboot public expectations Covid…
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Macau extends coronavirus lockdown to next Friday, gives hard-hit businesses fresh round of financial aid
Extension of anti-epidemic curbs in casino hub comes as week-long lockdown was set to expire on Sunday. Read the original article at South China Morning Post
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PM extends pandemic leave payment; 77 Covid deaths – as it happened
Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk urges mask-wearing indoors after national cabinet meeting. This blog is now closed ‘Not just another wave’: Covid hospitalisations reach record levels Get our free news app,…
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Covid killed so many of us – now the government fears our tears and rage | Michael Rosen
With deaths from the virus passing 200,000, Britain is a country struggling to process the trauma of so much fear and loss Covid changed my life, so anything I say…
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Coronavirus: health chief to weigh experts’ call for Hong Kong to ease curbs and build natural immunity through infections; city logs 3,762 cases
Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau acknowledges suggestions from HKU experts, two of whom are government advisers, but warns ‘policymaking doesn’t depend on a certain theory’. Read the original article at…
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Ex-tsar angry at neglect of pupils in England left behind in pandemic
Sir Kevan Collins says recovery plan may end up little more than ‘a few kids in the corner doing a bit of tutoring’ The former education recovery commissioner, Sir Kevan…
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Time to ‘get away’: Hong Kong residents cooped up by Covid pandemic take flight as travel bug bites, never mind soaring airfares
Holidaymakers impatient for a break after more than two years of pandemic travel restrictions Read the original article at South China Morning Post