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Coronavirus: Hong Kong’s fresh pork supply to ‘return to normal on Tuesday’ after slaughterhouses reopen
Hong Kong’s supply of fresh pork will return to normal on Tuesday, the government has said, after Covid-19 outbreaks at the city’s slaughterhouses resulted in dwindling stock and led to…
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New York City’s restaurant industry grapples with easing vaccine rules
Many welcome the change as a ‘return to normalcy’ that will support restaurants and bars, but others worry it’s too soon Tyler Hollinger, owner of Festivál Cafe, a “farm-to-bar cocktail…
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‘What have we done wrong?’: Hong Kong taxi drivers who ferry Covid-19 patients put up with stares, discrimination
The money was good, so Ho Wai-sum, 58, signed up as an anti-epidemic taxi driver ferrying Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms to and from outpatient clinics.Two weeks into the job,…
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Coronavirus: How the idea to clean contaminated surfaces with UV rays saw the light of day in Jordan
In the age of Covid, Jordanian mechanical engineer Saliba Taimeh pondered how to deal with one contaminated everyday surface: the handrails of escalators in shopping malls and transport hubs.He came…
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Obsessed? Frightened? Wakeful? War in Ukraine sparks return of doomscrolling
As happened with Covid, the compulsive need to keep up with the Russian invasion is taking a toll on our mental health The pace of the crisis in Ukraine has…
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More warnings in place for NSW as severe storms strike Queensland – as it happened
More than 70,000 people in NSW covered by 55 evacuation orders as Sydney and Central Coast face more heavy rain; extreme heatwave warnings for north Queensland as severe storms develop…
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Coronavirus: Saudi Arabia lifts most Covid restrictions, putting an end to social distancing outdoors
Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it was lifting most Covid-19 restrictions including social distancing in public spaces and quarantine for vaccinated arrivals, moves that could facilitate the arrival of Muslim…
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In sparking panic buying and lockdown fear, Carrie Lam has again failed Xi’s remit
We haven’t come very far since the beginning of Covid-19. Last week’s empty supermarket shelves looked like we had gone back to February 2020, when panic buying and stockpiling toilet…
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Omicron: Chinese city of Qingdao reports Covid-19 outbreak among students
The eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao has reported 88 new coronavirus cases, all of them of the Omicron variant, fuelling China’s highest number of daily locally transmitted cases so…
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To beat Covid-19, Hong Kong must execute ‘dynamic zero infection’ strategy as intended
The highly infectious Omicron was first discovered in South Africa in late 2021 and declared a “virus of concern” by the World Health Organization on November 25. Its spread to…