COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: South Korea drops quarantine for vaccinated visitors; Southeast Asia’s tourist hubs roll back restrictions
Starting April 1, travellers who have been fully vaccinated overseas and registered their vaccination history with South Korea’s Q-Code website will be able to enter the country without a seven-day…
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Coronavirus: ‘abandoned and in a living hell’? Staff crunch leads to 20 days without showers for elderly patients at Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Expo isolation facility
Some elderly Covid-19 patients at Hong Kong’s government-run AsiaWorld-Expo isolation facility have been deprived of showers for more than 20 days amid a staffing shortfall, with a nurse describing residents…
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Annie Macmanus on the legacy of lockdown: I was forced to stand still – and realised what I wanted
The Radio 1 DJ left her family to work each weekday evening and spent years trying to squeeze things in. Lockdown made her realise what she was missing out on…
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Visits set to resume in Hong Kong prisons after Correctional Services Department brings Covid-19 outbreak under control
Prison visits for friends and family members of inmates are set to resume, albeit with certain conditions, after the Correctional Services Department (CSD) declared it had brought an outbreak of…
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: relaunch of wage subsidy scheme will benefit up to 1.3 million workers affected by fifth wave, Carrie Lam says, as infections surpass 1 million
Employers affected by Hong Kong’s raging fifth wave of coronavirus infections will receive a new round of subsidies to help them cover staff salaries from May to July, the city’s…
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Australia news live updates: Labor senators deny bullying allegations; Japanese encephalitis situation ‘evolving’; Rolfe suppression orders lifted
Suppression orders in relation to Zachary Rolfe trial lifted; Penny Wong, Kristina Keneally and Katy Gallagher issue statement on Kimberley Kitching; NSW says Japanese encephalitis situation evolving as South Australia…
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Coronavirus: first-dose vaccination rate among Hong Kong elderly plunged 85 per cent in past 3 weeks, data shows. Should we be worried?
The daily number of elderly Hongkongers getting their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine has plunged by 85 per cent over the past three weeks, data reviewed by the Post…
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Ministers failed to allow parliament opportunity to scrutinise UK Covid laws
A cross-party committee of MPs said the Coronavirus Act was passed in an ‘unsatisfactory’ manner Ministers failed to allow parliament enough opportunity to scrutinise the sweeping laws passed to tackle…
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Hong Kong can ease pandemic-control regime in 6 to 8 weeks if 2 key conditions met, government adviser says
Hong Kong can ease its tough pandemic-control measures in six to eight weeks at the soonest and relaxation is “preferred” to sticking with the “dynamic-zero” Covid-19 policy, a top government…
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China must prepare to move on from its zero-Covid policy after Hong Kong’s terrible lesson
For two years, China has forged its own path in its absolute commitment to a zero-Covid policy. This reflects Beijing’s ability to eliminate Covid-19 from within its borders and prevent…