The Hong Kong government announced on Wednesday that it will impose a 14-day mandatory quarantine on all people entering the city from China in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, while co ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-06
Fatalities from the coronavirus epidemic are overwhelmingly concentrated in central China’s Wuhan city, which accounts for over 73 percent of deaths despite having only one-third the number of confirm ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-06
... re in the city of Tianjin, the northeastern province of Heilongjiang and Guizhou province in the southwest. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
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... n Chinese city of Guangzhou on Jan. 24. Hong Kong saw its first death from the coronavirus virus on Tuesday, and the city has confirmed 18 infection cases, including at least four that were transmitte ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-05
... a’s Wuhan city in January. Lam's office later clarified her remarks, saying the guidelines did not apply to masks bought by civil servants while stressing “the government had not asked colleagues not ...More
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... ed in the city. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) under the Department of Health reported on Tuesday night that a 25-year-old man who lives in a building along Ma Tau Wai Road in Kowloon City tes ...More
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... 10 of the city's 13 border crossings. However, we believe the steps her administration has so far taken in combating the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak are still insufficient, because even if only three b ...More
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... on in the city diagnosed with the Wuhan pneumonia is a mainland man who travelled from Wuhan to Hong Kong by high-speed rail. And everybody knows that the “measures which have fallen behind the develo ...More
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China's Wuhan city, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, is converting an additional eight buildings, including gymnasiums, exhibition centers and sports centers, into hospitals, Reuters reports ...More
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... h Bend, a city of 102,000 people. Speaking to supporters in Laconia, New Hampshire, after the early results were announced, Buttigieg said he had begun the race a year ago with four staff members, no ...More
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... round the city and been advised to stay home as much as possible. Ho said he would be speaking to casino owners to discuss the closures. No immediate details were given as to when the suspension would ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-04
Hong Kong reported its first coronavirus death on Tuesday, a 39-year-old male who had been suffering from an underlying illness and had visited China’s Wuhan city in January, Reuters reports, citing h ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-04
... el to the city has been halted. Lam said the latest steps are not related to the strike by the hospital workers, but in line with the government's existing strategy. She also warned that those taking ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-03
... luded the city in its ban on travellers from China. All the people spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized by their firms to speak on the subject. One Hong Kong-based pr ...More
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... ng in the city. One doctor, Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist, told members of a medical school alumni WeChat group on Dec. 30 that there were seven cases of SARS in the hospital where he worked. He was ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-03
... ok of our city in 2020. In my view, the social issues and political disputes that have been gripping our city are two sides of the same coin. As I have pointed out in a previous article, a local acade ...More
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... ngguan, a city in the southern province of Guangdong. Other companies have also kept production running, in some cases even through the New Year, in a sign of the critical importance Beijing places on ...More
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... unged the city into its worst crisis since it reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. Chan said catering, retail, tourism and consumer sectors, which have been hit in the last six months, would “fall into a ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-03
A shortage of surgical masks amid mounting concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus has triggered panic buying in the city. Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung said more than 32 million ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-03
The first death from the novel coronavirus outside of China was reported in the Philippines on Sunday. A 44-year-old Chinese man from the city of Wuhan in Hubei province, the epicenter of the epidemic ...More
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