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As global attention remains focused on India’s runaway Covid-19 infections, Nepal is in the midst of battling its own second coronavirus wave, pushing its health care system to the brink. Oxygen is in such short supply in Nepal that it has asked climbers on Mount Everest to return canisters to be refilled for medica…
E-commerce and live-streaming are fuelling growth in Chinese consumer brands as well as for multinational retailers, and in turn creating opportunities for savvy investors to turn a profit. That is according to Carlyle Group executives Patrick Siewert and Nina Gong, who spoke with the South China Morning Post in an …
China’s Sichuan Provincial Commission of Health released Get Jabbed Quick on May 18, 2021.The rap song urges Chinese citizens to get their Covid-19 shots. China’s government aims to vaccinate 40 per cent of the population by June as the country boosts its vaccination drive with promotions and incentives.
China’s Sichuan Provincial Commission of Health released a rap song on May 18, 2021 to encourage Covid-19 vaccinations as the country ramps up its nationwide vaccine campaign. Beijing has set a goal of vaccinating 40 per cent of the population by June, a figure more than double current vaccination rates.
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The Post’s Cliff Buddle writes that Hong Kong must do all it can to keep foreign residents from leaving and continue attracting others like them if it's to make good on its claim to be an international city. Last week, an American Chamber of Commerce survey of 325 people found that 42 per cent of respondents were pl…
India's devastating second wave of coronavirus infections has not just brought urban hospitals to the breaking point. In the village of Mewla Gopalgarh, in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh, Covid-19 patients unable to find beds at a nearby government hospital have had to seek help from a makeshift clinic under a tree,…
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The Indian state of West Bengal began a two-week lockdown on May 16, 2021, to halt the rapid spread of Covid-19. A surge in new infections struck the region after mass rallies were held for a key state election in March and early April. All offices, shops and public transport in the region have been told to remain c…
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The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on May 13, 2021, that fully vaccinated people are no longer required to wear masks outdoors or to physically distance themselves in most places. The agency said the updated guidance will encourage Americans to get vaccinated and allow life to start re…
No matter how hard he tried, Jonatan Garcia said, he couldn’t find steady work in Guatemala. He dabbled in construction, and on some days picked beans, after losing his sales job at a TV station a few weeks after the pandemic shuttered businesses and further stifled employment in his country.
India saw another record 4,205 fatalities from the coronavirus on May 12, 2021, raising the total death toll to 250,000. It was the deadliest day in the country since the pandemic began, as Covid-19 continues to spread from cities to rural India. On May 11, four people died within a one-hour period in a small town h…
Rugao, or China’s “longevity city”, is home to over 78,000 elderly and more than 500 residents who are over the age of 100. According to the 2020 national census, China’s population is becoming older, with retirees expected to make up one-third of the population by 2050. The trend makes Rugao a potential testing gro…
A woman was filmed demanding that flight crew carry her off a plane that was due to depart from southern China’s Guangxi province. She was asked to leave the plane due to a health issue. However, she vented her anger at the flight crew.
As many countries continue to struggle with rising numbers of Covid-19 infections and deaths, the UN World Health Organization has classified four variants of the disease as a cause for concern. The variants have been shown to have higher transmissibility or come with more severe symptoms. But it’s still not clear h…
Mainland China’s population continued to grow, but at an increasingly slower rate, according to new census data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on May 11, 2021. The results of the once-in-a-decade census found that the country’s population stood at 1.412 billion in 2020, with national birth rates falli…
India is grappling with the world's worst Covid-19 outbreak, with nearly 370,000 new infections and over 3,700 deaths on May 10, 2021. More than 30 per cent of those caught up in India’s Covid-19 crisis are under the age of 30. Sanghamitra Acharya, professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health at J…
A clinic in India’s southeastern city of Chennai has been taking care of pets that belong to people who are fighting Covid-19 infections. Veterinary surgeons at the clinic have been busy reassuring people that the animals have a low risk of catching and spreading the coronavirus. Clinic owner Dr R. Sokkalingam said …
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It has been 27 years since the South China Morning Post’s Harry Harrison moved to Hong Kong, where he began work as a cartoonist for the publication. Through the years, his illustrations depicted the many changes the city has undergone, most recently, the 2019 Hong Kong protests and the Covid-19 pandemic. Harry reca…
Volunteers in India’s western city of Ahmedabad have converted a temple into a 50-bed care centre as the country fights its second coronavirus wave. The surge in infections has strained India’s health system, causing hospitals to face a shortage of beds. Many other religious sites have also offered to house and take…
Amid a second wave of coronavirus infections, Nepal hit a grim record with 9,196 new Covid-19 cases on May 7, 2021. Experts fear the country may mimic the pandemic catastrophe in India, the second-worst hit nation after the US. Nepal’s health care system is under intense pressure, and the government has been critici…
A Japanese coastal town has spent over 25 million yen (US$229,000) of the coronavirus relief money it received from the government on a giant squid statue. Noto government officials said they hoped the sculpture helps promote the local seafood speciality and boost tourism to their community in Ishikawa Prefecture. T…
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As India struggles with a second Covid-19 wave, a non-profit organisation in New Delhi has turned more than a dozen auto-rickshaws into ambulances to transport patients for free. The vehicles are disinfected between each ride and equipped with face masks, sanitisers and oxygen cylinders.
Hospitals and medical workers are struggling to deal with a rising number of Covid-19 cases in India, where a brutal second wave of Covid-19 has pushed daily infection numbers above 300,000 for the past 14 days. Fighting on the front lines are junior doctors like Rohan Aggarwal, who recently worked 27 hours straight…
Myanmar's military junta has announced plans for schools across the country to reopen on the annual back-to-school day on June 1, 2021. Schools and universities have been closed since August 2020 because of the pandemic. But on May 5, students in the cities of Yangon and Dawei protested against the reopening orders,…
A school in Beijing is teaching a skill that is increasingly in high demand across China: being able to differentiate bona fide luxury goods from bogus items. China is the world's second-biggest market for luxury goods after the US, and home to the only luxury market in the world that posted growth during the pandem…
Millions of holidaymakers have flocked to China’s iconic tourist sites as the country celebrates the annual May Day break, in a sign that Covid-19 fears are receding in mainland China more than a year since the pandemic began. Over 56.4 million domestic trips were recorded on May 1, 2021, which is the start of a fiv…
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India is in the grip of a spiralling Covid-19 crisis, with more than 20 million infections and 220,000 deaths recorded across the country. Dr Abbas Ali Khatai is on the front line of the pandemic fight at a hospital in New Delhi. He spoke with South China Morning Post reporter Alkira Reinfrank about the mental strai…
Thousands of Chinese tourists flocked to the Great Wall of China during the May Day holiday, as the rest of the world struggles to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. The five-day holiday, which began on May 1, 2021, saw a domestic tourism boom in China, with people travelling long distances and visiting popular touris…
Hospitals in India are struggling to find enough oxygen supplies for their Covid-19 patients as cases continue to surge across the country. Express trains carrying tonnes of oxygen arrived in New Delhi on May 4, 2021, as part of a government effort to move surplus supplies from eastern India to hard-hit northern and…
Nepal reported 7,587 new coronavirus cases on May 4, 2021, the highest single-day tally seen in the Himalayan country since the pandemic began. In Kathmandu, the epicentre of the nation’s latest outbreak, families of Covid-19 victims had to watch the bodies of their loved ones burn out in the open as temples and cre…
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he “felt good” after being inoculated against Covid-19 using the Sinopharm vaccine developed in China. Duterte's long-time aide, Senator Christopher Bong Go posted a video on social media showing Health Secretary Francisco Duque administering the vaccine in Duterte's left ar…
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party has suffered a significant setback in a key state election in West Bengal on May 2, 2021. Aggressive campaigning by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the poll was blamed for accelerating the country’s ferocious second wave of coronavirus infections. On the d…
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