COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong researchers find three-drug combination suppresses virus nearly twice as fast as drug held up as major hope against pandemic
A combination of three drugs suppressed the coronavirus within seven days when used on patients in Hong Kong, nearly twice as fast as the single medicine seen as a leading…
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Inside China Tech: China’s business (and smog) comes back
Good morning, this is Melissa Zhu from the SCMP tech desk in Hong Kong with a wrap of some of our best stories from this week.First, the bad news. After…
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Donald Trump must turn to friend Xi Jinping to help calm South China Sea
I write in response to Yonden Lhatoo’s “China-US Cold War heats up with coronavirus conspiracy and cover-up charges” (May 2). While there was a pre-coronavirus symbiotic economic relationship between China…
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Coronavirus: three cheers for Hong Kong’s free face mask scheme
Over the past four months, binning one-off surgical masks has become daily practice for most Hongkongers. We have no option but to throw away non-recyclable masks, despite the known harm…
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Coronavirus: Singapore’s struggle to source nasal swabs shows why test kits are so scarce
In a back room of Singaporean dentist Teehee Dental Works, three orange-topped boxes hum with a sterile buzz.Over the next three hours, a thousand strands of liquid resin will form…
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As global travel and tourism braces for a long slump, can Hong Kong overcome this existential challenge?
International tourism as we know it has disappeared, and that will be the case for the coming six months – maybe a year. With it have gone millions of jobs…
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Anti-China bias in Australian media does neither country any favours
In late April, it was reported that the Chinese ambassador, Cheng Jingye, had threatened Australia with trade boycotts if it insisted on investigating China for its handling of the coronavirus…
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How to heal the WHO after the coronavirus pandemic? Try the opposite of what Trump did
In “The global coronavirus crisis has made press freedom, in Hong Kong and elsewhere, more vital than ever” (April 2) Phil C.W. Chan says the “all-too-cosy relationship between Beijing and…
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Coronavirus: scientists say US-China ‘political drama’ is impeding progress on tracing Covid-19’s path
US government requests from China for early coronavirus samples make sense as part of efforts to bring the pandemic under control and avoid future ones, but the “political drama” around…
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E-commerce, live-streaming help drive recovery in China’s retail scene amid coronavirus slump
Online sales of physical goods surged 36.3 per cent year-on-year during the Labour Day holiday in China, helping to drive the recovery of the country’s retail scene which has been…