Coronavirus: pneumonia mortality rates for diabetics remain troubling, study...
While mortality rates for a number of diseases have dropped sharply among diabetics in recent years, those rates have remained stubbornly static for pneumonia, new research shows, a key concern given...
View ArticleCoronavirus: price-gouging Hong Kong retailers cashing in on city’s mask...
Emergency laws to stop retailers benefiting from the coronavirus outbreak by charging extortionate prices for surgical masks are being considered by the Hong Kong government, an adviser to the city’s...
View ArticleHong Kong police on the hunt for two people who abscond from coronavirus...
Hong Kong police are hunting for two people who absconded from 14-day quarantines imposed by the government to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.Health minister Sophia Chan Siu-chee said on...
View ArticleCoronavirus: mask giveaways in Hong Kong draw thousands with infection fear...
Thousands queued for free surgical masks at multiple locations in Hong Kong on Monday as the government considered bringing in emergency laws against overcharging, with the city gripped by shortages...
View ArticleWhere are our guidelines? Hotel sector says government has not provided...
Members of Hong Kong’s hotel industry said on Monday the government had not provided guidelines on handling quarantined guests, despite 35 travellers being ordered to stay indoors since the measures...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hongkongers stuck on the Diamond Princess in Japan struggle with...
Hongkongers stranded aboard the docked Diamond Princess cruise liner in Yokohama for seven days say they have to contend with stifling boredom, confined spaces, erratic meal times and dirty bedlinen –...
View ArticleCoronavirus: More than 100 Tsing Yi residents evacuated as Hong Kong health...
More than 100 residents in 35 households at a public estate in Hong Kong were evacuated in the early hours of Tuesday after two people in the block were confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus.The...
View ArticleHong Kong’s public investigating authorities under pressure to probe...
The heads of two public investigation bodies in Hong Kong are under pressure to probe accusations of unauthorised use and sales of government-produced masks, as the Post found at least 10 departments...
View ArticleCan a hotpot meal infect you with the coronavirus? Hong Kong businesses shun...
Restaurants in Hong Kong have been scrambling to remove hotpot from their menus as people shun gatherings amid the coronavirus outbreak but fears spiked over the past few days when at least 11 family...
View ArticleCoronavirus: three more Hong Kong housing blocks face inspection after Tsing...
Hong Kong authorities will conduct inspections at three other public housing blocks after four residents from a high-rise building in Tsing Yi and a close contact were confirmed to be infected with the...
View ArticleQuestions on China’s coronavirus response can wait, says former WHO official
Critics of China’s public health response should not get “hung up on looking backwards” at a time when the country is overwhelmed by the novel coronavirus, a former World Health Organisation official...
View ArticleCoronavirus: mainland Chinese woman arrested for claiming men posed as police...
A mainland Chinese woman was arrested for misleading police on Monday, after claiming that two robbers posed as plain-clothes policemen checking on coronavirus-related quarantines to steal HK$10,000...
View ArticleCoronavirus: seven more cases confirmed in Hong Kong, taking city’s total...
Seven more patients in Hong Kong have been infected with the deadly coronavirus, taking the city’s tally to 49.The Centre for Health Protection’s Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan said on Tuesday one of the new...
View ArticleCoronavirus: why did Singapore have more cases than Hong Kong – until now?
At least in layman eyes, Hong Kong looks like it should be far more vulnerable than Singapore to the spread of the coronavirus.After all, it has 13 border crossings with mainland China, where the...
View ArticleResearchers from Hong Kong’s PolyU develop diagnostic system to identify up...
Researchers from Polytechnic University have developed a system that can identify up to 40 types of bacteria or viruses linked to respiratory infections in around an hour, raising hopes for doctors in...
View Article‘Hotbeds of disease’: call for government aid for Hongkongers in subdivided...
Needy residents living in Hong Kong’s subdivided flats who cannot afford masks or disinfectants have expressed fears that their cramped quarters and bad drainage systems are exposing them to the...
View ArticleHong Kong woman in breach of coronavirus quarantine order by visiting Kowloon...
A woman who broke a quarantine order by going to her office in Kowloon and attending a meeting elsewhere in Hong Kong has slammed the anti-contagion measure as a “complete waste of time and...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Community 0utbreak in Hong Kong
Many of the patients found to be infected with the coronavirus in Hong Kong have not visited the mainland recently. It is believed that a community outbreak of the deadly virus in the city is...
View ArticleDoctors at Hong Kong Asia Heart Centre offer surgeries at low cost to ease...
Doctors at a private clinic in Hong Kong will voluntarily perform surgeries at lower fees, as public hospital resources are stretched to the limit to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.The Hong Kong...
View ArticleAt least 500 Wuhan medical staff infected with coronavirus
At least 500 hospital staff in Wuhan had been infected with the deadly new strain of coronavirus by mid January, multiple medical sources have confirmed, leaving hospitals short-staffed and causing...
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