COVID-19 Updates
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Absence from work at record high as Americans feel strain from Covid
More than a million people have called out sick for the past three years, and CDC says long Covid probably a contributor too For many Americans it feels like everyone…
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China’s healthcare system still plagued by ‘serious deficiencies’ despite Covid spending spree
China spent enormous sums of money on building isolation facilities and makeshift hospitals over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, but a recent surge in infections has highlighted huge medical…
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Coronavirus: room exists to further ease testing for Hong Kong, mainland China cross-border travellers, CY Leung says, while expert proposes review
Leung, now a vice-chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, points to caseloads being kept at bay despite border reopening and festive break. Read the original article at South…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong bosses taking no chances with infected workers even as mandatory isolation for Covid patients is axed
Operators in school, care home, restaurant and hotel sectors respond to Hong Kong government’s decision to scrap isolation policy for Covid patients from Monday. Read the original article at South…
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Most bosses secretly want all staff back in offices, says head of CBI
Since Covid pandemic, ‘whole world of work has gone crazy,’ says Tony Danker Most bosses secretly want to get all staff back to working in the office, according to the…
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Cross-border pupils’ return to Hong Kong classrooms delayed, with first students back in mid-February, Education Bureau says
Authorities had earlier said secondary students could resume face-to-face lessons on February 1, and primary and kindergarten children on February 15. Read the original article at South China Morning Post
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong should carry out review on handling of Covid crisis – but not to point fingers, top government adviser says
Exco convenor Regina Ip suggests lawmakers and health experts should be appointed for eventual move, but judges should be left out as they are not policy experts. Read the original…
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How to fight inflation? (Spoiler alert: not with interest rate rises) | Joseph Stiglitz
US inflation is mainly supply-side driven so further rate hikes will have little to no effect – and cause deep problems of their own Despite favourable indices, it is too…
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South Korea extends restrictions on China arrivals amid concerns over post-Lunar New Year holiday Covid-19 surge
Health authorities have extend the coronavirus measures on short-term travellers from China through the end of February. Read the original article at South China Morning Post