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The Chinese state-owned drug maker Sinopharm has been ramping up mass production of its Covid-19 vaccines, according to state media reports. The Sinopharm jab is China’s first home-grown vaccine against the coronavirus. On December 31, 2020, Beijing approved its use on members of the general public as officials prom…
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South Korea has seen a surge in the number of people getting plastic surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is thought the increase has happened because people think they can hide behind face masks or work from home while their surgery heals.
A video showing a Mercedes-Benz knocking down a bike rider at an intersection in Hong Kong and driving off before being stopped by a motorcyclist has been widely circulated online. The accident happened in Sheung Shui on January 3, 2021. The 33-year-old cyclist suffered head and leg injuries and was taken conscious …
With its first home-grown Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine granted conditional approval on December 30, 2020, China started the year 2021 with a plan to vaccinate 50 million people before February. The jabs will be given under a national inoculation programme to prepare the country for the movement of hundreds of millions…
World leaders including Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel have sent New Year messages to mark the arrival of 2021 as they say goodbye to a tough year of battling the global coronavirus pandemic.
Hong Kong replaced a traditional fireworks display over Victoria Harbour with a live-streamed virtual display to welcome 2021 amid the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the second year in a row that New Year fireworks have been cancelled. The previous year’s show was called off due to citywide anti-government protests.
Hong Kong rings in 2021 with its annual New Year fireworks display cancelled and gatherings larger than two people banned. Police have been out in force on streets across the city to curb possible illegal gatherings and to enforce coronavirus-related restrictions.
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Shamans in Peru have predicted the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. They performed a ritual to bring good health and fortune to capital city Lima.
Chinese President Xi Jinping honoured the efforts of the country’s people in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic in a New Year speech on December 31, 2020. He also said China wrote an “epic” of its fight against the outbreak.
French DJ David Guetta will be holding a charity live stream concert to welcome 2021 despite the industry battling the Covid-19 pandemic.
Scotland is bidding farewell to 2020 with one of UK’s largest-ever drone shows. A swarm of 150 LED drones, choreographed by artificial intelligence software, lit up the skies over Scotland. The event is part of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay festival to celebrate the New Year. The annual celebration went online this year due …
China announced on December 31, 2020, the approval of a domestically developed vaccine for the coronavirus. The approved vaccine was developed by the Beijing Biological Products Institute under the China National Biotec Group (CNBG), which is affiliated with Sinopharm. The interim analysis of its phase 3 clinical tr…
A 46-year-old nurse became the first person in Singapore to receive a coronavirus vaccine as the city state started to roll out the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 shots on December 30, 2020. Singapore was one of the first Asian countries to begin an inoculation campaign against the coronavirus.
Climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and government security lockdowns brought on by regional disputes have all taken their toll on saffron farmers in Indian-administered Kashmir in 2020. The world’s priciest spice was once a source of economic fortune for thousands of families in the region.
2020 is a year unlike any other. It left the world a starkly different place than the year before. The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed more than 1 million lives worldwide, wreaking havoc on the economy and leaving millions of people jobless and struggling to survive.
South Korea has seen a rise in the number of young women taking their own lives since the Covid-19 pandemic began to sweep across the country. National Police Agency data shows a more than 40 per cent rise in suicides among women in their 20s between January and June 2020, compared with the same period in 2019, an i…
The world was shocked when China imposed a draconian lockdown on the central city of Wuhan in January 2020 in an attempt to contain a new coronavirus that would develop into a global pandemic. As Covid-19 spread around the world, so did lockdowns. As of the first week of April, about half of the world’s population o…
The global tourism industry has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. Brian Linden, an American who owns a hotel in Dali, in southwest China, said he is receiving fewer guests. To Linden, his hotel is a place where people from around the world can learn about various cultures, but due to the declining business tha…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is reportedly set to open a massive ruling Workers’ Party congress in January 2021. The meeting is expected to give him a chance to try and muster stronger public loyalty and lay out new economic and foreign policies amid the Covid-19 pandemic. North Korea has not officially confirmed…
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The first cluster of cases of what was first identified as a “mysterious pneumonia” was reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. At the time, few suspected the novel coronavirus behind the illness would spread worldwide to become one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. The Post's Shan…
Indian trainees were learning how to administer Covid-19 vaccines in southern India on December 22, 2020, as part of the nation’s preparations for a mass inoculation programme expected to get under way in January 2021. Three coronavirus vaccine candidates are still waiting for approval in India. When mass vaccinatio…
The Chinese capital city Beijing has stepped up its coronavirus response after five more Covid-19 cases were confirmed in the city’s Shunyi district on December 26, 2020. Tighter rules on health declarations, mask wearing and temperature checks were put into force. In total, 13 infections had been detected in the ca…
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Shachuhaku is a Japanese term for “staying overnight in a vehicle”, and refers to a leisure activity that is popular in places like Australia that has more recently caught on in Japan. Now a growing number of Hongkongers are hitting the road to camp in their cars, in part because many cannot travel abroad for holida…
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India’s film industry has been badly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Productions and new film releases were put to a halt due to strict lockdown restrictions. Many low-paid workers in the sector had lost their jobs as a result. In addition to that, the industry has also lost many talents that died from Covid-1…
The UK has detected a “more transmissible” variant of coronavirus in contacts of two new cases who have travelled from South Africa. British Health Minister Matt Hancock said on December 23, 2020, that immediate restrictions on travel to and from South Africa have been imposed. Anyone who has travelled there in the …
The Covid-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech was found to be more than 50 per cent effective based on analysis of its phase-three trial conducted in São Paulo state, Brazil. The announcement, made by Brazilian trial partner Butantan Institute on December 23, 2020, marks a major step forward for the Chin…
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said on December 23, 2020, that the government had secured enough Covid-19 vaccines to cover all 7.5 million residents. Hong Kong has so far ordered 7.5 million doses of three different types of vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca, China's Sinovac Biotech and Fosun P…
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Hundreds of workers have been preparing for the annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang. They broke the frozen surface of the Songhua River into ice blocks, then turned them into life-sized castles, pagodas and even a functioning hotpot restaurant. The winter festiva…
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London has gone into lockdown and many countries and regions have banned UK flights after the discovery of a new and reportedly more transmissible variant of the coronavirus in Britain. The news also sparked a scientific scramble to gather more facts about this new Sars-CoV-2 strain that causes the disease Covid-19.…
A legendary music venue in Wuhan known as the home of the Chinese city’s vibrant indie music scene is roaring back to life after it fell victim to a strict lockdown in early 2020 to fight the spread of Covid-19. Even after restrictions were eased in April, the Vox Livehouse was unable to welcome back performers and …
