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Virus-hit Hong Kong invokes emergency powers to allow in China medics
Feb 24, 2022 (AFP)
The densely populated metropolis is in the throes of its worst-ever Covid wave, registering thousands of cases every day, which are overwhelming hospitals and g...
Hong Kong parents decry child separations during virus surge
Feb 23, 2022 (AFP)
The densely populated metropolis is in the throes of its worst-ever Covid wave, registering thousands of cases every day as hospitals and isolation units run ou...
Firing Hong Kong domestic workers with coronavirus 'immoral': consul
Feb 22, 2022 (AFP)
Charities said last week that foreign domestic workers in the wealthy city were being "abandoned" amid the Covid-19 wave, with some forced to sleep outdoors or ...
Hong Kong to see three rounds of compulsory virus tests
Feb 22, 2022 (AFP)
The densely populated metropolis is in the throes of a record virus surge with thousands of confirmed cases every day threatening to overwhelm hospitals and the...
Hong Kong to launch vaccine pass as Omicron outbreak rages
Feb 21, 2022 (AFP)
The densely populated metropolis is currently in the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak, registering thousands of confirmed cases every day as hospit...
China helps virus-ravaged Hong Kong build isolation units
Feb 20, 2022 (AFP)
The crowded Chinese financial hub is in the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak, registering thousands of confirmed cases a day as hospitals reach bre...
How Covid-wracked Hong Kong is reeling two years into pandemic
Feb 19, 2022 (AFP)
The city's strict but successful "zero-Covid" policy had largely kept the virus out for months. But when the highly transmissible Omicron variant broke through ...
Hong Kong foreign domestic workers 'abandoned' in virus crisis
Feb 18, 2022 (AFP)
The Chinese financial hub is currently in the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak, registering thousands of confirmed cases a day as hospitals reach b...
Chinese cities offer cash to combat people smuggling in Covid fight
Feb 18, 2022 (AFP)
Beijing has adhered to a strict zero-Covid strategy that has kept infection numbers low by employing strict border closures, targeted lockdowns and long quarant...
'Battlefield mode': Hong Kong hospitals buckle under Omicron wave
Feb 17, 2022 (AFP)
"We call this the fever zone," a nurse in full-body protective gear told AFP, declining to be named. "Don't get too close." Hong Kong is in the throes of its wo...
DARPA program to reduce mosquito attraction and biting moves into second phase
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
The ReVector program aims to precisely, safely, and efficiently reduce mosquito attraction and biting, and, subsequently, to help maintain the health of militar...
China's Xi orders Hong Kong to suppress outbreak 'above everything else'
Feb 16, 2022 (AFP)
Hong Kong is currently in the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak, registering over a thousand confirmed cases a day as hospitals reach their breaking...
Hong Kong leader rules out China-style lockdown as virus spreads
Feb 15, 2022 (AFP)
The comments came as hospitals began to buckle under the strain of rising infections with at least two medical facilities placing patients in beds outside their...
Hong Kong leader says city 'overwhelmed' by Omicron wave
Feb 14, 2022 (AFP)
Authorities have adhered to mainland China's policy of stamping out the smallest outbreak with mass quarantine, widespread tracking, and prolonged social distan...
Cyclone, Barry Manilow fail to dislodge New Zealand anti-vaccine protesters
Feb 13, 2022 (AFP)
Instead, hundreds of protesters -- inspired by the "Freedom Convoy" of truckers in Canada -- danced in the mud to the tunes meant to force their dispersal. Not ...
Canada protesters dig in with military-style proficiency
Feb 12, 2022 (AFP)
Their numbers have fallen from a peak of almost 15,000 when the truckers first rolled into the capital two weeks ago. At first the goal was to protest Covid res...
China gives conditional approval for Pfizer Covid pill: drug regulator
Feb 12, 2022 (AFP)
The drug has so far been authorised in about 40 countries including the United States and Israel, while the European Union has permitted member states to use it...
'I must live!' Hospital gives hope to C.Africa HIV patients
Feb 10, 2022 (AFP)
"I have six children -- who is going to take care of them if I die? I must live!" the 37-year-old says, touching her neck which is bloated by swollen lymph node...
Tonga virus cases surge in wake of eruption
Feb 10, 2022 (AFP)
Health Minister Saia Piukala said 31 new cases had been detected in the previous 24 hours, a record for the island nation which was virus-free until last month'...
France's Nobel winner for co-discovery of HIV virus dies
Feb 10, 2022 (AFP)
Montagnier died on Tuesday in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine northwest of the centre of Paris, its mayor Jean-Christophe Fromantin told AFP. Fromant...
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