Tag: COVID-19
Coronavirus: Australia to allow foreign travellers with rapid antigen test
Australia will allow international air travellers to enter the country if they provide results from a rapid antigen test (RAT) taken within 24...
9 seconds apart: how Omicron could have spread from 2 people to a Hong...
It could take just a brief encounter in an MTR station for the Omicron variant to transmit from one person to another, Hong...
China coronavirus: woman on blind date trapped after man’s home placed under Covid-19 lockdown
A woman in China has become an internet celebrity after getting trapped in the house of a man she was on a blind...
Mass testing, health codes, lockdowns: how China’s zero-Covid policy works
In this series, we answer frequently asked questions about China’s zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19, including entry restrictions, the length of quarantine and testing...
How dangerous is ‘flurona’ – a Covid-19 and flu double whammy – as Omicron...
Israel recently reported its first case of a simultaneous Covid-19 and seasonal influenza infection, refreshing fears of a more such co-infections.While the case...
Israel finds fourth vaccine boosts antibodies five-fold; Violence at pandemic protests in Germany
A fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine boosts antibodies five-fold a week after the shot is administered, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on...
Coronavirus: Hong Kong fitness chain blames ‘unrealistic rent’, social-distancing toll in closing last branches
A troubled Hong Kong fitness chain has closed its four remaining branches, citing “unrealistic rents” and social-distancing regulations that crippled the industry during...
Italy bans New Year events as coronavirus cases climb to pandemic record
Italy has tightened restrictions to curb surging Covid-19 infections, including banning all public New Year’s Eve celebrations, as daily infections hit a record...
Coronavirus: New York mayor Bill de Blasio says ‘no more shutdowns’ as city faces...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he is committed to keeping the city open as it grapples with yet another spike...
Donald Trump reveals he got a Covid-19 booster, crowd boos him
Former US president Donald Trump revealed he received a booster shot of the Covid-19 vaccine, drawing boos from a crowd in Dallas.Trump made...
Omicron spread shows China got it right on Covid-19 strategy, top disease expert says
Foreign nations should realise by now that China’s so-called over the top approach in handling the pandemic was the correct one, the country’s...
When Covid-19 hit Cathay Pacific, these 3 flight attendants began selling food. Then things...
For more than 20 years, Hong Kong residents Shilpa Pednekar, 51, Rinny Ayu, 47, and Lany Chew, 50, focused on their jobs as...
Finland’s PM Sanna Marin apologises for clubbing after Covid-19 exposure
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin apologised to the public after photos surfaced of her in a nightclub following the foreign minister testing positive...
Coronavirus: Hong Kong will consider vaccine passports if necessary, but city has ‘not hit...
A vaccine passport that would bar unjabbed residents from numerous Hong Kong venues will remain in the government’s toolkit should its Covid-19 inoculation...
Coronavirus: EU chief says it’s time to ‘think about mandatory vaccination’
It is time for the European Union to “think about mandatory vaccination” against Covid-19, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on...
Coronavirus: more Omicron variant cases pop up as world rushes to learn more
Cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in countries on opposite sides of the world on Sunday and many governments...
Omicron variant: in slap at China, US praises South Africa’s detection of new Covid...
The United States praised South Africa Saturday for quickly identifying the new Covid strain called Omicron and sharing this information with the world...
Coronavirus: Hong Kong has not done enough to fight the next infection wave, health...
Hong Kong has not done enough to prepare for a fifth wave of Covid-19, including adopting digital contact-tracing systems to detect and prevent...
Coronavirus: violence erupts in Brussels against new Covid-19 measures
Violence broke out at a protest against anti-Covid measures in Brussels on Sunday, in which police said tens of thousands of people took...
US overdose deaths hit record 100,000 in a year, driven by fentanyl use and...
An estimated 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in one year, a never-before-seen milestone that health officials say is tied to the Covid-19...