Asia-Pacific medical experts to offer insight from front lines of Covid-19...
The South China Morning Post is joining two other leading Asia-Pacific newsrooms in Singapore and Sydney for the world’s first international Facebook Watch media event to analyse and share lessons from...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Octopus to provide data to University of Hong Kong researchers...
E-payment service provider Octopus has agreed to provide data to researchers from the University of Hong Kong studying transmission patterns of the coronavirus and the movements of city residents to...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong scientists look into disinfection and reuse of face masks
Hong Kong scientists are looking into disinfecting and reusing masks amid a Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated by a persistent shortage of protective gear, a top infectious disease expert has...
View ArticleCoronavirus: as social distancing, travel restrictions change Ching Ming...
Hong Kong’s traditional paper offering shops have seen business plummet by as much as 50 per cent ahead of this year’s Ching Ming Festival amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis, even as sales of faux...
View ArticleBars and pubs shut across Hong Kong as city records 43 new coronavirus...
Most bars and pubs in Hong Kong shut on Friday to comply with the government’s latest ban aimed at limiting social gatherings and curbing a growing number of Covid-19 cases tied to entertainment...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong businesses ‘do not know what to do’ as bar and pub...
Bar and restaurant owners have accused the Hong Kong government of failing to provide clarity over its two-week closure of drinking venues even as it came into force on Friday night, with fears raised...
View ArticleCoronavirus: social distancing remains the best strategy, experts tell...
Social distancing remains the best universal strategy against the coronavirus as vaccines or treatments are still at least a year away, health experts in Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore have said on...
View ArticleCoronavirus: applause rings out in Hong Kong for health workers on Covid-19...
Hongkongers clapped their hands and beamed electronic messages of support from the city’s skyscrapers on Friday in tribute to health workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic.Two groups had made...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong trio stranded in Poland urge city’s government for...
Three Hongkongers stranded in Poland have called for assistance from their government, as one of them was evicted from his hotel after a ban on guests kicked in amid coronavirus fears.Their appeals...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong police to let detainees wear full surgical masks to...
Hong Kong police will give detainees proper surgical masks to wear during the coronavirus epidemic, after it was lambasted for forcing arrested anti-government protesters to don face coverings which...
View ArticleIsolation, boredom, and a 151 sq ft ‘cell’: the prison-like conditions of...
When a freelance reporter with Young Post tested positive for the coronavirus on March 17, 11 staff and freelancers were taken to government quarantine camps as required under new public health...
View ArticleCoronavirus: quieter Ching Ming Festival as Hongkongers mark grave-sweeping...
Hong Kong’s families visited their ancestors’ tombs on Saturday in small batches amid a much quieter Ching Ming Festival this year under a government ban on public gatherings of more than four.The...
View ArticleQuarantine on both sides of the border: a reporter’s account of life at home...
Dazed and confused, I cannot believe I have spent a total of 65 days in quarantine on either side of the border as the coronavirus continues to rage across the globe.However, I have been enjoying my...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong investigates possible hospital spread, as 17 new cases...
Health authorities are investigating Hong Kong’s first case of possible coronavirus transmission in a public hospital after an elderly stroke patient was infected during his stay, as the city confirmed...
View ArticleTo mask or not to mask: WHO makes U-turn while US, Singapore abandon pandemic...
As the world grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic which has made more than a million people sick and caused more than 58,000 deaths so far, one issue has divided the international medical community:...
View ArticleCoronavirus: about 130 riot police in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon region ordered...
Nearly all members of a regional anti-riot squad in Hong Kong will be placed under quarantine for two weeks after an officer involved in mass arrests at the site of an anti-government protest earlier...
View ArticleFormer employee of Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Office dies after falling from...
A former press officer at the Chief Executive Office plunged from a residential building to his death on Saturday afternoon, the Hong Kong government has confirmed.The suicide came five days after the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: 600 Hongkongers stuck in India’s lockdown as lawmaker urges aid...
About 600 Hongkongers stuck in India – the largest known group of city residents still stranded overseas amid the coronavirus pandemic – have called for help from the city’s government with the country...
View ArticleCoronavirus: more than 200 tested after possible transmission at Hong Kong...
Hong Kong has tested more than 200 patients and medical staff at a public hospital who were deemed at risk after an elderly stroke victim contracted the coronavirus, with nearly all returning a...
View ArticleCoronavirus testing: how it works and where to get tested for Covid-19
The coronavirus testing process depends on the instructions of the health authorities of the place where you live.In Hong Kong, it is recommended people call their doctors and get tested if they have...
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