COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong’s brokers and banks shut branches as financial hub hunkers down for worst coronavirus flare-up yet
Several of Hong Kong’s biggest brokers and banks have shut their branches, as the financial hub hunkers down for the toughest social-distancing rules yet to combat a fresh wave of…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong shortlisting hotels for asymptomatic patients as public treatment facilities reach capacity
Hong Kong is shortlisting hotels to place asymptomatic Covid-19 patients as public treatment facilities reach capacity, preferring such isolation to having them stay at home which is deemed riskier in…
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Coronavirus: Bill Gates-backed Hong Kong start-up wins US FDA approval for its Covid-19 rapid test kit even amid US-China strain
Phase Scientific International (PSI), the Hong Kong start-up that edged out established mainland Chinese peers to win US approval for a Covid-19 rapid antigen test (RAT) kit, owes its success…
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Coronavirus: Canada PM Justin Trudeau slams trucker protests, as police threaten arrests
Canadian police threatened on Wednesday to arrest trucker-led protesters who have shut down central Ottawa and disrupted cross-border trade in anger at Covid-19 health rules, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…
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Covid rules are to be axed in England, but is pandemic’s end really in sight?
Analysis: Plans to end isolation rules have been gleefully announced, but questions about infection control remain Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage As the threat of the…
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Is England an outlier in abandoning Covid isolation rule?
How does England’s move to end self-isolation compare with rules in other European countries? Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson has announced plans to abolish…
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Coronavirus: Discovery Bay residents complain of infection risk, unclear information at Hong Kong Covid-19 testing stations
Residents of Hong Kong’s Discovery Bay complained about unclear instructions and the risk of Covid-19 infection at specimen collection stations on Wednesday, as more than 20,000 people faced a compulsory…
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China’s coronavirus lockdown to have ‘inevitable’ impact on aluminium output as zero-Covid policy impact spreads
China’s latest coronavirus lockdown has driven up the price of aluminium, with an impact on production expected to be “inevitable”, in the most recent supply chain disturbance caused by the…
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: rail giant, utilities and telecoms bolster protective measures to ensure smooth operations amid surging fifth wave
Hong Kong’s rail operator, public utilities and telecoms firms have ramped up their Covid-19 precautionary measures to ensure service can continue largely uninterrupted during the escalating fifth wave.The measures included…
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Hong Kong man arrested on suspicion of attacking mother, brother with box cutter in heated vaccine row
Police arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of attacking his mother and brother with a box cutter at a Hong Kong public housing flat on Wednesday after he refused to…