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South Korean street vendors eagerly await Chinese tourists amid tit-for-tat Covid travel measures
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: sc.mp/subscribe-youtube After China eased its zero-Covid policy and reopened its borders on January 8, 2023, tourism-dependent businesses in South Korea have been…
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Emotional reunions following resumption of direct flights from China to New Zealand
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Scenes of friend and family reunions have been seen at Auckland Airport, as one of the first direct flights from China…
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Rising Ganges river gives up India’s Covid-19 dead
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Shallow graves have been emerging from the banks of India’s Ganges river. The bodies, which washed up from seasonal monsoon floods,…
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Vaccines, Hong Kong & herd immunity; China’s new vaccine, passport politics and COVAX
Dr Ben Cowling from the HKU School of Public Health discusses what herd immunity looks like for Hong Kong and how new Covid-19 variants will affect vaccinations; SCMP reporter Simone…
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Coronavirus in China: Celebrating Lunar New Year away from home
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Every year, hundreds of millions of Chinese head home to celebrate Lunar New Year with their families. But in order to…
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Coronavirus: Europe’s second wave puts hospitals under pressure again as cases soar
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Hospitals across Europe are under renewed pressure as a rising number of Covid-19 patients take up limited bed space and medical…
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China’s rich hire experts to tidy wardrobes stuffed by online shopping sprees during the pandemic
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Chen Rui says when she discovered a Burberry jacket she did not recall buying was the moment she knew she had…
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UK government imposes new Covid-19 lockdown for England
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The UK government has imposed a new Covid-19 lockdown across England. The region was placed under a four-week quarantine starting from…
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Business still terrible in Wuhan, despite end of lockdown at China’s first coronavirus epicentre
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Though night markets reopened in Wuhan in June 2020, vendors and restaurant owners in the central Chinese city at the initial…
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Global Covid-19 death toll hits 500,000 as coronavirus infections surge past 10 million
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Two grim milestones in the coronavirus pandemic were reached on the same day, as the global death toll surpassed 500,000 and…