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A widely available steroid, dexamethasone, helped cut the death rate for one-third of patients who needed ventilators, researchers at the University of Oxford found. The UK will immediately start giving the drug to coronavirus patients, British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.
The coronavirus pandemic may have prohibited mass gatherings, but it is not stopping this Philippine primary school in Manila from holding its graduation ceremony. 'Robots' dressed in graduation gowns with mounted tablets showing the faces of graduating students stand in to receive diplomas and medals on June 11, 2020.
While the coronavirus pandemic has forced many to delay life plans, such as work, education and travel, members of Generation Z around the world have come up with inventive ways to fight the virus and help their local communities.
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A villager in China’s Anhui province uses burning charcoal to create art pieces on the walls of an abandoned primary school. Chao Ge stopped drawing after high school, but picked it up again while on lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic. He likes to draw animals and Chinese heroes the most.
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Before China introduced its new rural pension system in 2009, most farmers could not afford the cost of joining a pension system or buying commercial pension insurance. Under the current scheme, farmers who are above age 60 qualify even if they have never paid into the system. But despite 11 years of work to roll ou…
Hong Kong has managed to avoid seeing any deaths from Covid-19 in its elderly care homes, even though the city is just across the border from the Chinese mainland and the original epicentre of the pandemic. Elaine Ly of the South China Morning Post asks the head of social care policy at Hong Kong University, Profess…
Hundreds of Taiwanese gathered at Taipei's Liberty Square on June 4, 2020, for a candlelight vigil to commemorate the crackdown on student demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square 31 years ago. Among those attending the vigil were Hongkongers who said they wanted to show support for anti-government protests that …
At least 39 students and staff at a primary school were injured in a knife attack in the city of Wuzhou in southern China, according to local authorities. The attack happened on June 4, 2020 in the city in China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
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Stacey Smiler, a teacher in New Zealand, is on a quest to share the story of how she raised her son who was diagnosed with epilepsy when he was a baby. She hopes their experience will help other families face the daily challenges of life with a disabled child. In an interview with the South China Morning Post, she s…
An eight-year-old girl from Myanmar is serving up dishes and posting online video tutorials. ‘Little Chef’ Moe Myint May Thu started learning how to cook with her mother after school was closed due to Covid-19 lockdowns. Her most popular video, which has almost 200,000 views, teaches netizens how to make a Myanmar b…
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, university students in China are having swimming lessons without having to enter a pool. Students bring their own plastic basins to practise breathing techniques.
Hongkongers with BN(O) passports will be able to obtain British citizenship if Beijing imposes the national security law in the city, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced, marking a dramatic shift to London’s long-held policy.
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To help students release stress and learn about animal care, protection and welfare, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology introduced a dog therapy programme last summer. Students said spending time with the dog regularly helps them unwind and relax from school work.
Professor De Kai is a founding member of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and one of the inaugural members of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) ethics council, the Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC). He spoke with the South China Morning Post’s Elaine Ly about how his research us…
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Schools and malls in Japan were empty during the usually-busy Golden Week holiday from late April to early May. But now, some schools and businesses have reopened as the authorities have lifted Covid-19 restrictions in parts of the country.
Following weeks of reported symptoms and clinical evidence, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently recognised the loss of taste and smell as indications of Covid-19 infection. Now a team of researchers at the University of Hong Kong have learned more about how the coronavirus that causes th…
The remote Atulie'er Village, which is known as ‘Cliff Village’, is in southwestern China’s Sichuan province. Villagers need to climb down an 800-metre-high cliff to go to school or even go to hospital to give birth. Recently 84 households in ‘Cliff Village’ relocated to their new apartments.
Hong Kong’s fresh university graduates who hoped to begin new careers in the coming months are coming to terms with the likelihood of years of hardship because of the economic damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The eyes are an “important route” for transmission of the coronavirus since eye tissues allow the infection to more efficiently replicate, according to Hong Kong researchers quoted in study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal. The South China Morning Post’s Elaine Ly spoke with Dr Michael Chan Chi-w…
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Markets across Pakistan have started to draw crowds again after the country eased lockdown measures to fight Covid-19, despite a recent rise in the number of infections. The country has allowed some businesses to reopen with restricted hours since May 9, 2020, but schools and intercity transport will remain shut.
More than 100 million, or nearly 40 per cent of all Chinese pupils are back at school as of Monday May 11, 2020. In Beijing, over 80,000 started classes in preparation for their high school entrance exams. Schools have adopted strict social-distancing and Covid-19 prevention measures.
Students from a high school in central China’s Hubei province used foldable transparent screens to keep social distance while eating in the classroom.
A boy was asked by a teacher in an online lesson if he had gained weight, then immediately went to exercise tearfully, and more trending videos from China this week.
Vietnam started to lift strict travel restrictions and social distancing measures on April 23, 2020, after no deaths caused by Covid-19 were reported. As the virus threat disappeared, traffic congestion reappeared in the country’s major cities as business and schools reopened. Timelapse footage shows Thanh Xuan dist…
Schools across Vietnam reopened on May 4, 2020, after the country reported its 17th straight day with no domestically transmitted Covid-19 infections. All educational institutions in Vietnam had closed in early February, after the first coronavirus cases were reported in the country.
A five-year-old boy in northern China’s Tianjin was asked by a teacher in an online lesson if he had gained weight, then immediately went to exercise tearfully.
A team of researchers from a Hong Kong university has developed an antiviral coating that may be able to help fight the spread of Covid-19. The scientists say the coating can provide up to 90 days of protection against bacteria and viruses including the novel coronavirus that causes the disease.
A primary school in eastern China’s Zhejiang province asked their pupils to wear one-metre hats they each designed themselves using wooden sticks, cardboards, or even balloons, to practise social distancing.
With the coronavirus outbreak in China reportedly largely under control, final-year students in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou started returning to class on April 27, 2020, to prepare for their university entrance exams.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced Hong Kong officials to postpone the city’s university entrance exams which were originally expected to start on March 27, 2020. When the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams finally got under way on April 24, candidates all needed to get temperature checks, wear face masks a…
A 10-year-old boy in central China’s Hunan province was so excited at his school reopening after coronavirus lockdown that he started performing kung fu moves.
Mainland China may have had four times as many Covid-19 cases as the official total in mid-February, 2020, if a broader system for classifying confirmed patients had been used from the outset of the pandemic, a recently published study has found. The research by University of Hong Kong was published April 21 in The …
Clinical trials on human subjects using an experimental new coronavirus vaccine got under way at Oxford University in the UK on April 23, 2020. Scientists in a lab at one of the world’s top universities have an ambitious goal of preparing a vaccine by autumn 2020 if all goes well. Around the world, more than 100 res…
The coronavirus pandemic has forced Hong Kong officials to postpone the city’s university entrance exams which were originally expected to start on March 27, 2020. When the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams finally got under way on April 24, candidates all needed to get temperature checks, wear face masks a…
Around 30 teachers in China’s Zhejiang province held umbrellas in a line to allow more than 900 students to walk from the school building to the gate during rain.
Thailand is requiring all returning citizens to undergo 14-day government quarantines as the kingdom tries to counter a rise in the number of Covid-19 infections among Thailand residents returning from overseas. Charles Dharapak recently finished his own mandatory isolation after he returned from abroad, and shared …
TJ Kim, a 16-year-old student from McLean, Virginia has been flying across the US state delivering medical supplies to rural hospitals in need. After lockdowns and school cancellations prematurely ended his studies and sports activities, the young pilot decided to make good use of his cross-country flight training l…
