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Despite a worsening economy and the US embargo, Cuba has managed to produce its own Covid-19 vaccines and medical equipment to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Local scientists developed five Covid-19 vaccine candidates, with two of them undergoing final clinical trials, starting in March 2021. If successful, the Com…
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Hong Kong will resume Covid-19 inoculations using BioNTech shots on April 5, 2021. Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen said the vaccine does “not have quality and safety issues” and announced details of the scheme's resumption on April 1. He also said that a fresh batch of 300,000 BioNTech jabs will…
Since India launched its national Covid-19 immunisation programme in mid-January, the country’s army of informal waste workers are yet to be vaccinated. Their proximity to dumpsites make rubbish scavengers highly vulnerable to disease. But unlike municipal sanitation workers, they are not formally employed, with lim…
Nowruz is the Persian and Iranian New Year. Also known as Navroz, the holiday is a traditional day of celebration in Indian-administered Kashmir to mark the beginning of spring. Among the practices followed on the auspicious day is undergoing leech therapy. Locals in the city of Srinagar waited their turn on March 2…
Pakistani President Arif Alvi confirmed on March 29, 2021, that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, hours after the government imposed a partial lockdown in high-risk areas in the country amid a sharp spike in new cases. Alvi said the test indicating he has the infection comes about two weeks after he receiv…
The leader of the World Health Organization (WHO) mission that travelled to China to investigate the origins of Covid-19 said the team felt “political pressure”, including from outside China. But the international experts were never pressured to alter their report, said WHO scientist Peter Ben Embarek speaking as th…
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Wilson Lam, 26, fainted outside a Hong Kong government-run vaccination centre where he took a China-made Sinovac jab on March 24, 2021, and woke up in hospital only to find much of his face paralysed.
A hospital in eastern China’s Zhejiang province showcased using robots to aid medical workers in drawing blood from patients. After a man stuck his arm into the robot, the machine scans his arm to locate a suitable spot before inserting a needle to draw blood. The robots caused heated discussion online.
Rising anti-Asian violence is a problem not only in the US, where incidents of racial violence have been growing amid the pandemic. Reports of violence and verbal abuse against ethnic Asians have also been increasing across Europe, including in the UK, Germany and Italy. In France, several dozen people gathered on M…
A one-year-old girl has a habit of doing splits while she is sleeping. Hehe started keeping the pose when she was three months old. Her mother has taken her to the doctor for a check-up and the doctor said she’s in a healthy condition. That, and more trending videos from China this week.
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A campaign is underway in China to control the population of red imported fire ants, one of the world’s most hazardous invasive species. Nine government departments, covering the agriculture, forestry, customs, housing, transport, water resources, railway, postal services and health sectors, have joined forces to ta…
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Hong Kong has temporarily cancelled bookings at all 21 community vaccination centres providing the BioNTech jab. The suspension will be in effect until further notice, after the vaccine’s Chinese distributor, Fosun Pharma, notified Hong Kong and Macau of a batch found with packaging defects. Dozens of people had alr…
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Researchers wearing headlamps and protective suits have been catching and swabbing thousands of bats in the Laguna province of the Philippines, looking for other strains of coronavirus. They call themselves ‘virus hunters’ and hope to develop a simulation model that can help the world avoid another health crisis lik…
The European Union, United Kingdom, United States and Canada have joined forces to launch sanctions against China on March 22, 2021, over suspected human rights abuses in the far western region of Xinjiang. The US government and Canadian parliament have also labelled China’s actions in Xinjiang a genocide. The sanct…
On the first anniversary of a nationwide lockdown, India is grappling with a resurgence in Covid-19 infections. The country has seen its biggest surge in months, with 46,951 cases and 212 deaths on March 22, 2021. It’s the world's third-worst affected country after the United States and Brazil. The country, which is…
World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on March 22, 2021, blasted the “grotesque” growing gap between the number of coronavirus vaccines administered in rich and poor countries, branding the inequity a global “moral outrage”. The UN health agency chief also appealed to vaccine producer…
Aiming to reach herd immunity, China is encouraging all eligible residents to get Covid-19 vaccines. Unlike other countries that prioritise the elderly, only people aged 18-59 are currently eligible for jabs in China. Health officials said the senior group will be covered once enough clinical data is collected. The …
Seiko Hashimoto, the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee president, said on March 20, 2021, that no international spectators will be allowed at the delayed Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. Amid continuing uncertainty about the Covid-19 pandemic, the five parties involved – the International Olympic Committee (IOC), I…
Thai police used tear gas and rubber bullets outside Bangkok’s Grand Palace on March 20, 2021, after protesters demanding reforms of the country’s monarchy, broke through a barricade of shipping containers. It was the latest episode of social unrest since Thailand’s pro-democracy movement began in July 2020. Demonst…
South China Morning Post graphic artist Han Huang travelled from Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland to visit her family in late November 2020. But the journey became a trip unlike any she had taken before, because the nation was embroiled in a fight against a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic. This is her story …
Baidu’s top 2020 internet buzzwords reveal new work-related anxietiesThe annual Baidu Buzz List shows people searched for new terms like ‘flexible work’, ‘cloud supervisors’ and ‘715’, revealing changes to work and everyday life in China amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
After senior activity centres in New York City shut down because of Covid-19 pandemic, many elderly citizens who normally used the facilities each day were suddenly faced with extreme social isolation. Zhu Shunliu, an 83-year-old who lives alone in Queens, found ways to use technology to stay connected and survive m…
The not-for-profit Music Children Foundation has been offering free music programmes since 2013 to about 5,000 underprivileged Hong Kong youths. Among them is eight-year-old Chu Wing-yan, who lives with her parents in local public housing. Wing-yan has been taking classes there since 2019, but the pandemic forced he…
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US congresswoman Grace Meng fired back at Republican lawmaker Chip Roy over his comments about China during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Asian-American discrimination following the deaths of 6 Asian women in the Atlanta spa shootings. During the meeting on March 18, 2021, Roy criticised China’s treatment o…
After nearly a year of delays because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Nintendo’s first-ever theme park was finally opened at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka on March 18. The US$550-million attraction features a Mario Kart ride, Mario-themed restaurants, and a chance for visitors to collect virtual coins.
A one-year-old girl in eastern China’s Shandong has a habit of doing splits while she is sleeping. Hehe started keeping the pose when she was three months old. Her mother has taken her to the doctor for a check-up and the doctor said she’s in a healthy condition.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said there is "no question" that the Trump administration's rhetoric on the coronavirus pandemic has elevated threats against Asian-Americans. Psaki said at a press conference on March 17, 2021, that former US President Donald Trump, who had called Covid-19 the "Chinese virus", …
A couple who works as medical workers and were off-duty resuscitated a man who suddenly collapsed on a road in northwestern China’s Gansu province. The husband pulled over and the wife, a nurse by profession, rushed to perform CPR and saved the man.
Authorities in the Philippines are reimposing lockdowns in targeted areas from March 17, 2021, as well as a two-week nighttime curfew across Metro Manila starting on March 15. The orders are going into effect after the nation recorded 5,400 cases, the highest single-day number of Covid-19 infections in the country, …
Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke during a Public Vaccination of Clergy event, held at the Washington National Cathedral on March 16, 2021. Fauci addressed a host of myths about Covid-19 vaccines, including claims that the shots can cause sterility or a…
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