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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 (...)
• 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 (...)
• 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 (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
• 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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
• 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 leader (...)
• 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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