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      • Caribbean
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      • Costa Rica
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      • Mexico
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      • Nicaragua
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          • Epidemics, pandemics (health, South East Asia, ASEAN))
      • Asia economy & social
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      • Afghanistan
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      • Bangladesh
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      • Burma / Myanmar
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      • Cambodia
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      • India
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      • Indonesia & West Papua
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      • Japan
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Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)

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Latest update : 9 June 2022.

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  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    ‘It’s very unfair’: How COVID-19 highlights inequality in treatment of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong

    3 March 2022, by CHIU Peace

    On a regular Sunday afternoon, Chater Garden in Central and its vicinity are packed with Filipino domestic workers catching up with friends and relaxing on their only day off each week.
    But on the Sunday that just passed, there were only a handful of them in the area.
    In their place were (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Explainer | Omicron has brought Hong Kong to its knees. How did it go so horribly wrong, and can the city go back to its zero-Covid days?

    17 February 2022, by CHEUNG Elizabeth

    • Public health care system is on the brink of collapse, patients lie in beds outside hospitals and thousands more wait days for admission to isolation facilities
    • City managed to keep the virus at bay for two years, so when did Hong Kong start to lose control, and what went wrong with (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Pandemic: Hong Kong maids need a break, but Covid-19 fears make it harder for them to gather on days off

    23 January 2021, by SUN Fiona

    • Some helpers say they end up working seven days a week when employers stop them going out
    • Victoria Park no longer the cheerful meeting place it used to be, say Indonesian helpers
    Every Sunday morning Indonesian domestic helper Eni Lestari gets dressed, puts on some light make-up and (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Why domestic workers are the unsung heroes of Hong Kong’s coronavirus crisis

    10 April 2020, by NG Jason Y

    As the world is gripped by the COVID-19 outbreak, there is an outpouring of gratitude for frontline medical workers who risk their health and safety to treat patients. Overdue credit has also been given to truck drivers and grocery store workers who put in long hours to meet the increased (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Covid 19 and Hong Kong

    7 April 2020, by LEONG Apo

    Last Thursday (2 Apr 2020) inflicted Covid 19 people throughout the world exceeded the threshold of one million with more than 50,000 lives perished, and worst of all, it seems there is no sight of stabilizing or decreasing. For Hong Kong (HK), as of 6 Apr, the confirmed case stood at 890, (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Coronavirus: Hong Kong will close borders to visitors and plans to ban sale of alcohol at bars in bid to stop spread of infections

    1 April 2020, by CHEUNG Gary, LUM Alvin, WONG Natalie

    City reports another alarming surge on Monday – 39 more patients confirmed as having Covid-19, most of them with a recent travel history. City’s leader warns of a ‘critical situation’ and appeals for vigilance and compliance with home-quarantine orders.
    Hong Kong will close its borders to all (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Hong Kong two viruses: Covid 19 and government repression against democratic movement

    1 April 2020, by LEUNG Christy, WONG Natalie

    Lawyers accuse officers of abusing the public health crisis by having the metal strips removed from detained demonstrators’ surgical masks. Meanwhile, restaurateurs say the force is using new anti-epidemic rules for political purposes.
    Protesters arrested
    Hong Kong police arrested 54 people (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Tougher measures against coronavirus may come this week as Hong Kong fights to contain local clusters and imported cases

    25 March 2020, by CHENG Lilian, LOW Zoe, ZHANG Karen

    Authorities warn of alarming surge in cases over past week, with total more than doubling to 410, as expert urges city not to be ‘complacent’. Calls to follow other countries in banning public gatherings, limiting hours of businesses and even shutting down public transport.
    Hong Kong may roll (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Coronavirus Outbreak: Hong Kong records 48 new cases in biggest daily jump yet as experts warn about imported infections

    20 March 2020, by CHENG Lilian, CHUNG Kimmy, SUM Lok Kei

    • Increase comes as government adviser says residents letting their guard down too soon
    • Top microbiologist warns residents to brace for 200 imported cases of Covid-19 in the next two to three weeks
    Hong Kong recorded 48 new coronavirus infections on Friday, the biggest daily jump since (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Coronavirus: Basic protective gear ‘unaffordable’ for 70% of Hong Kong’s low-income families – survey

    25 February 2020, by CREERY Jennifer

    Nearly 70 per cent of Hong Kong low-income families surveyed said they cannot afford to buy protective items such as surgical face masks and alcohol rub amid the coronavirus outbreak, according to findings released on Sunday.
    In a survey of 397 respondents, aged between 36 and 50, anti-poverty (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Coronavirus: Made in Hong Kong face masks a joint effort by ‘chemistry godfather’ and social enterprise

    21 February 2020, by WONG Rachel

    A reusable face mask initiative attempts to address a pressing local problem by offering a global solution: “The design should be universal so I’m not charging for the patent. Everyone can download the template and tailor their own masks,” said Dr Kenneth Kwong, the mastermind behind the HK MASK (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    No leadership: Hong Kong’s government is sleeping on the job as the coronavirus adds to challenges facing globalisation

    16 February 2020, by BOWRING Philip, CHOW Holden

    Hong Kong should be alive to the coronavirus threat to globalisation, yet unlike in Singapore, another international city dependent on free trade, the government has shown no leadership, leaving medical workers to strike for better protection and domestic workers open to further abuse
    It may (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Coronavirus: Hong Kong street cleaners struggle to work amid face mask shortage

    16 February 2020, by HO Kelly

    As the number of deadly coronavirus cases in Hong Kong climbs, maintaining public hygiene remains a vital step in curbing the spread of the SARS-like strain in the community. But tens of thousands of local street cleaners have been confronted with an imminent shortage of face masks – an (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Coronavirus outbreak: ’Dread is spreading throughout Hong Kong’

    13 February 2020, by HILLIER Ben

    The largest quarantine in human history is ongoing: a total lockdown of maybe 60 million people in Hubei province and its capital, Wuhan, the epicentre of the epidemic. One thousand kilometres south, Asia’s World City, as Hong Kong likes to call itself, is in chaos.
    People queuing for masks in (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Coronavirus outbreak: Hong Kong domestic workers fight for day off amid infection fears

    10 February 2020, by BEATTIE Elizabeth

    Hong Kong’s domestic workers struggle to defend already meagre rights as virus triggers calls for them to stay at home.
    Hong Kong. China - Domestic workers in Hong Kong typically only have one day off each week - Sunday.
    On this contractually-stipulated rest day, the city’s large parks and (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Coronavirus: Hong Kong faces escalated medical strike despite government move to expand border closures

    3 February 2020, by CHEUNG Tony

    • Hospital Authority says services ‘seriously affected’ as about 2,700 staff skip work in bid to force government into total border shutdown
    • City’s first human-to-human transmission of deadly virus confirmed as 15th patient infected through close contact with her son
    Hong Kong’s embattled (...)

  • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Hong Kong)
    Health Crisis: Fears of coronavirus spreading in Hong Kong as local hospital staff back strike to demand closure of border with mainland China

    1 February 2020, by CHAN Ho Him, CHEUNG Elizabeth, LEUNG Kanis , TING Victor

    • Health chiefs raise worrying possibility that 75-year-old man who became 12th confirmed case on Friday might have been infected in the city
    • Hospital bosses to meet angry workers on Sunday in bid to head off industrial action
    Thousands of Hong Kong’s public hospital doctors, nurses and other (...)



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