COVID-19 Updates

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Coronavirus: fourth wave could be in store for Hong Kong, but even a speedy return to normalcy would be a ‘pyrrhic victory’, expert warns

Hong Kong could face a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections in the autumn and winter season, and while disruptions to normal life could persist for another six months to a…
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For many teenagers, lockdown has been a lesson in wellbeing | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

It’s difficult to reflect on 2020 so far without thinking about the internet. As millions of us were learning to live under lockdown, the internet coloured our interactions as it…
airportsAugust 29, 2020
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Bhutan lifts tobacco ban as coronavirus enters borders via cigarette smugglers

The remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, known for embracing gross national happiness and outlawing television until 1999, has made the unusual decision to temporarily reverse a ban on the sale…
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The experience of Covid-19 shows how easily catastrophe can befall our species | Raghu Karnad

Months after the end of the second world war, Albert Einstein gave an interview to urge Americans to imagine the third one. It was vital, he said, “to recognise that…
airportsAugust 29, 2020
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Coronavirus: experts see ‘positive sign’ as 220,000 Hong Kong residents sign up for mass-testing scheme in first 11 hours of online registration

About 220,000 people in Hong Kong signed up for the city’s voluntary Covid-19 testing scheme in the first 11 hours of online registration on Saturday, with medical experts hailing the…
airportsAugust 29, 2020
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Michelle Obama condemns shootings of Jacob Blake and protesters – as it happened

This evening, summarized Kari Paul here, closing this blog for the night. Here are the top stories from the past few hours you should know. Former first lady Michelle Obama…
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Covid-19 hits Hong Kong sports: athletes slow down, events are cancelled, coaches worry over loss of income

Hong Kong tchoukball player Lin Pak-hei feels rusty for not practising the team sport for half a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic.The closure of schools and sports facilities in…
airportsAugust 28, 2020
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Back to school in Covid times: what can pupils in England expect?

It has been a summer of painstaking preparations for headteachers charged with drawing up plans covering everything from new behavioural rules to “Covid-secure” measures before millions of pupils in England…
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Secondary schools in England could use attendance ‘rota system’

English secondary schools in local lockdown areas could have to use a “rota system” to limit the number of teenagers attending at any one time, with teachers and pupils required…
airportsAugust 28, 2020
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Pacific’s fight against Covid-19 hamstrung by lack of clean water

Papua New Guinea’s battle against a climbing rate of Covid-19 infections is being hampered by the most basic of shortages – access to clean water –public health experts have warned.…