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The first batch of mainland Chinese medical workers arrived in Hong Kong on March 14, 2022, as the city continues to battle its most severe wave of Covid-19 infections. The 75-member team comprises 36 doctors and 39 nurses from 14 Guangdong public hospitals. They will be assigned to a treatment facility at AsiaWorld…
Japan’s annual Hiwatari or fire-walking festival is held on the second Sunday of March at a temple on Mount Takao, west of the capital Tokyo on March 13, 2022. The ceremony at Yakuo-in Yuki-ji involves practitioners of Japan’s Shugendo religion walking through embers to pray for world peace, protection from misfortu…
A healthy baby girl was born in a Mariupol hospital on March 11, 2022, just days after her mother survived a Russian air strike at the maternity hospital where she was waiting to deliver the child. Ukrainian officials say three people were killed and 17 injured in the attack on the maternity hospital. Another pregna…
US journalist Brent Renaud was shot and killed in Ukraine on March 13, 2022, according to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Two others were injured in the shooting, including fellow American journalist Juan Arrendondo, who was taken to hospital. The pair were attempting to film refugees in the Ukrainian city o…
China continued to see a surge in Covid-19 cases after topping 1,000 for two days in a row. On March 14, 2022, authorities reported 1,337 locally transmitted cases, marking a four-fold increase from a week ago. A lockdown was implemented in Shenzhen after it emerged that 95 per cent of the confirmed cases in Guangdo…
Some 300,000 Covid-19 patients and their close contacts in Hong Kong are now under home quarantine, according to the city’s leader, as she conceded on March 13, 2022, that authorities cannot keep up with the sheer number of infections. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said the government would start delive…
Footage from March 8, 2022, has emerged, allegedly showing captured Ukrainian servicemen being treated at a hospital in Donetsk. On the other side of the conflict, captured Russian soldiers were shown at a press conference organised in Kyiv by Ukrainian authorities.The Russian Defence Ministry admitted on March 9 th…
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor acknowledged that government efforts have fallen short in getting the city’s elderly vaccinated against Covid-19, even as it continues to grapple with a fifth wave of infections. Hong Kong Covid-19 pandemic adviser Professor David Hui said deep-rooted misconceptio…
Hong Kong is in the midst of its worst Covid-19 wave to date, recording the world’s highest coronavirus death rate and pushing an overstretched health care system to the brink. As the government pledged to focus on vaccinating the elderly and bringing down the number of deaths, the Post’s Alkira Reinfrank speaks to …
Omicron BA.2, a sister variant of the fast-spreading Omicron BA.1 variant, is proving to be an even more infectious form of the new strain of the Covid-19 virus. In Hong Kong, Omicron BA.2 quickly overtook BA.1 to become the dominant strain, fuelling the largest wave of cases seen in the city so far during the pande…
A Russian attack has destroyed a maternity hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol on March 9, 2022. Regional authorities said no deaths had yet been confirmed, but at least 17 people were injured, including staff and patients. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that people and children were tra…
Hong Kong athletes to perform best ‘athletically, morally’ at Winter OlympicsCity to send 13-strong delegation, with athletes Sidney Chu, Audrey King and Arian Yung joined by Sports Federation and Olympic Committee chiefs, headquarter officials and medical staff, with requirements ‘more or less’ similar to last year…
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on March 9, 2022, announced three public hospitals in the city have been or will be converted into centres for solely treating Covid-19 patients, as infections in the city continue rising. Lam said the government is determined to isolate infected patients in hospitals and …
The chairman of South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party was assaulted during a political rally in Seoul on March 7, 2022. Song Young-gil was campaigning in the capital in support of presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung ahead of the March 9 election, when a man wielding what was described as a small hammer attacked him…
Hong Kong launched a new website on March 7, 2022, for reporting positive Covid-19 results using Rapid Antigen Tests to health authorities. Officials expect the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases to grow exponentially with the launch of the platform.
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Crowds of critically ill patients, low oxygen supplies and poor hygiene conditions are among scenes reported by some public health care staff as Hong Kong struggles with its worst coronavirus outbreak to date. The Post talked to health care workers who shared their distressing experiences at public hospitals amid th…
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After three weeks of anti-vaccine mandate protests in New Zealand, hundreds of riot police were deployed to disperse demonstrators on March 2, 2022. Protesters have been blocking streets and sparked several fires near the parliament building in the capital Wellington. The protests were in response to the country’s t…
In Ohmadyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, mothers and babies take temporary shelter on makeshift beds and blankets laid out along the corridor. Children have been treated for shrapnel and bullet wounds from shelling as Russia intensifies its attacks on Ukraine.
Mainland China opened a new railway supply route on March 2, 2022, to send medical supplies from Shenzhen amid a massive surge of Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong has opened the first of several mobile cabin hospitals planned in the city’s New Territories. Built with mainland Chinese assistance, the complex in Tsing Yi was handed over and officially started operations on March 1, 2022. The project, which provides an additional 3,900 beds for Covid-19 patients, is th…
Babies have been born in a makeshift maternity ward set up in a bomb shelter in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. This came as Russian troops intensified a shelling campaign against the city, forcing a local hospital to move its maternity ward to safety underground. Despite residential buildings, schools and ho…
The bodies of residents who have died from Covid-19 are being stored on gurneys in hallways or beds inside accident and emergency departments at public hospitals as mortuaries approach capacity in Hong Kong. A source has told the Post that officials are considering storing bodies in refrigerated containers if the si…
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Hong Kong officially began its vaccine-pass programme on February 24, 2022, as the city continued to struggle to contain a fifth wave of Covid-19 infections. Residents need to provide proof of vaccination to be allowed into venues including restaurants, shopping malls, supermarkets and wet markets. Officials hope th…
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In the Philippines, a group of teachers and volunteers has set up a special trolley school for students unable to continue face-to-face education during the coronavirus pandemic. They use a little-used rail track to push their trolley up three different neighbourhoods a day, three times a week. More than 60 children…
A health care worker in Hong Kong has recounted the chaos and confusion he saw at local hospitals as patients were seen waiting outside because of a shortage of wards to accommodate Covid-19 patients. David Chan, a nurse and the Chairman of the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance, said a lack of clear messaging fr…
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito celebrated his 62nd birthday in a relatively small ceremony on February 23, 2022, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The emperor and empress along with several politicians, including Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, attended the event. The emperor’s birthday celebrations have been low-key f…
Mexico’s army seized about three tonnes (3.3 tons) of cocaine after a high-speed chase off the Baja California Peninsula coast on February 14, 2022. Security footage from an army helicopter captured the chase, some 68 nautical miles (78 miles) from the resort city of Cabo San Lucas. Three suspects were taken into cu…
All Hong Kong residents will undergo compulsory testing for Covid-19 in March, as part of further tightening of pandemic restrictions unveiled by the city’s leader on February 22, 2022. Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor also announced an early start to the school summer break, as well as more stringent social distancing me…
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, Hong Kong’s beauty parlours, including nail salons and spa centres, have been forced to suspend their business for a total of more than 190 days. Hair salons joined those services to become the latest establishments forced to temporarily close on February 10, 2022, am…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on February 21, 2022, that he is scrapping the nation’s last remaining coronavirus restriction. Starting February 24, people who test positive for Covid-19 will no longer have to self-isolate and there will no longer be any routine tracing of an infected person’s close conta…
Covid-19 Infections involving the Omicron variant have spiked in South Korea where 95,362 cases were reported on February 21, 2022. The nation’s daily case toll had surpassed 100,000 in the three days prior, bringing the country’s total number of infections to 2,058,184. But deaths from the disease have remained rel…
After a nearly two-year closure, Australia reopened its international borders to fully vaccinated visa holders on February 21, 2022. But unvaccinated travellers still need to apply for a travel exemption and must pay for their own hotel quarantine. Travellers were greeted with items representing Australia, such as k…
Stemirna Therapeutics has built a Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing plant in the Chinese city of Shanghai. The company said the facility is capable of producing 200 million doses of its in-house mRNA Covid-19 vaccine annually. The vaccine is currently undergoing clinical trials before the company can start mass product…
According to several migrant workers rights groups, at least 30 foreign domestic workers were forced to sleep on the streets or were denied treatment after testing positive for Covid-19 amid a surge in infections in Hong Kong. HELP for Domestic Workers, one of the local NGOs, has supported over 60 migrant domestic w…
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The election to decide the next leader of Hong Kong has been delayed until May to focus all efforts on fighting the pandemic. The current chief executive, Carrie Lam, cited the use of the Emergency Ordinance to trigger the postponement. This as authorities confirmed on February 17, 2022, that they were considering a…
An injured, rare snow leopard was rescued by police and locals at the Feicui Lake scenic area in China’s northwest Qinghai Province on January 30, 2022. The big cat was motionless when it was found. It is suspected to have been drinking salty water. After a six-hour ordeal, rescuers took the animal to the larger, ne…
A taxi service to transport Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms to seven designated treatment clinics in Hong Kong began operating on February 18, 2022. About 300 taxis have been mobilised to ferry patients, despite the risk of exposure to drivers. It's hoped the treatment clinics will ease the strain on the city's…
Hong Kong reported a record of more than 6,100 confirmed coronavirus cases and over 6,300 suspected infections on February 17, 2022, as officials relaxed discharge criteria for patients to relieve pressure on the health care system amid the worsening fifth wave of the pandemic. (Photo: SCMP / Sam Tsang)
Despite surging numbers of coronavirus infections, Indonesia reopened the resort island of Bali on February 16, 2022. The island province had been closed to foreign travellers for more than a year during the pandemic. It resulted in a massive slowdown in Bali’s tourism industry compared to 2019, when it hosted 6.2 m…
Muzaffer Kayasan is Turkey's longest running Covid-19 patient, recording a continuous coronavirus infection for more than a year. The 56-year-old, who has a weakened immune system from leukaemia, has spent nine months in hospital and 5 months mostly alone in his flat. Kayasan is not allowed to be vaccinated while he…
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Hong Kong authorities “must mobilise all forces and resources that can be mobilised, take all necessary measures and protect Hong Kong people's lives and health”, to control the fifth wave of Covid-19 infections in the city. Xi's comments, published by local pro-Beijing media on Feb…
Hong Kong hospitals began to buckle under the strain of rising coronavirus infections as the city recorded 1,619 new Covid-19 cases and 5,400 suspected cases on February 15, 2022. Hong Kong treats all of its Covid-19 patients in dedicated isolation wards to control the airflow in the room and reduce the amount of ai…
Candidates hoping to become South Korea’s next president started campaigning on February 15, 2022. Already locked in a tight race are Lee Jae-myung of the liberal Democratic Party of Korea and conservative People Power Party candidate Yoon Suk-yeol. Weighed down by high disapproval ratings and smear campaigns, they …
Hong Kong resumed Covid-19 testing operations at the Huo-Yan Laboratory in Ma On Shan on February 15, 2022, as the city scrambles to trace and curb the spread of coronavirus infections. The latest wave of cases in recent weeks has grown with daily infections spiking to 1,600. The temporary lab consists of 16 air-inf…
