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Hong Kong mortuaries hit capacity as COVID deaths climb

Facilities for storing dead bodies at hospitals and public mortuaries in Hong Kong are at maximum capacity due to a record number of COVID-19 fatalities, the Hospital Authority said on Monday, as officials battle to control a surge in cases.

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Hong Kong reports record daily COVID cases and 83 deaths

Hong Kong reported a record 26,026 daily COVID-19 infections on Sunday and 83 deaths, as an outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant overwhelms healthcare facilities and proves hard to control.

Reuters

The big picture: the geometry of social distancing

Jason Au’s stark but strangely tender image from a sunlit Hong Kong mall sums up our Covid times

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Hong Kong's success in fending off COVID comes back to haunt

For two years, Hong Kong successfully insulated most of its residents from COVID-19, even going nearly three months late last year without a single locally spread case

The Independent UK

Hong Kong allows COVID home testing as daily cases soar

Hong Kong health authorities said on Saturday they would adjust COVID testing procedures to allow some people to test from home to ease long queues at designated testing centers, as the city's outbreak proves increasingly hard to control.

Reuters

BTS win 2021 Global Recording Artist of the Year award from IFPI

HONG KONG: Superstar K-pop boy band BTS have won the IFPI's 2021 Global Recording Artist of the Year award for the second year in a row, the leading music industry organisation announced on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

Hong Kong's new virus cases top 10,000 in spiraling outbreak

Hong Kong has reported another sharp jump in new COVID-19 cases to more than 10,000 in the latest 24-hour period

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Covid: Sweden ‘should have clamped down harder’ as pandemic hit; US set to ease mask guidelines – as it happened

Latest updates: Swedish report says government should have shown better leadership at start of crisis; new US mask guidelines expected on Friday

The Guardian - UK

Hong Kong families despair as COVID rules may separate them from children

Guada, a mother of two young children and pregnant with twins, cries herself to sleep at night, worried that Hong Kong's severe COVID-19 rules will separate her from her kids or force her to give birth alone.

Reuters

Tesla Rivals Xpeng, Li Auto Lead Gainers Chart As Hong Kong Tech Stocks Post Recovery

Shares of U.S.-listed Chinese tech companies traded mostly higher in Hong Kong on Friday even as the benchmark Hang Seng Index drifted lower after a positive start.

Benzinga

Hong Kong Invokes Emergency Powers Amid Unprecedented Covid-19 Case Numbers

The emergency powers exempt doctors from the mainland from licensing requirements and allow them to treat patients in Hong Kong.

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Deconstructing cities

If Zaha Hadid's paintings of The Peak had come to life, Hong Kong would boast a leisure club and architectural landmark featuring horizontal beams with a large void carved out between a geological intervention in the hills of Kowloon.

Bangkok Post

Home Office U-turns on decision to exclude young Hong Kongers from BNO scheme

Ministers admit current rules creating ‘unfair outcomes’ for some Hong Kong nationals

The Independent UK

Kiwi publishers shift millions in printing from shadow of Chinese censorship

One Chinese printer rejected a history text saying the ancestors of Māori came from Taiwan; another insisted that 19th Century NZ dressmakers imported their silk from the People's Republic

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UK expands eligibility for Hong Kong visa offer

Britain on Thursday expanded the criteria for its visa programme for people in former colony Hong Kong to allow adult children of eligible residents to apply independent of their parents.

Benzinga

Here's Why DiDi Shares Are Trading Lower Today

China's transport ministry ordered ride-hailing companies to disclose pricing details to the public, Reuters reports as per state broadcaster China Central Television. Wang Xiuchun, deputy director of the Department of Transport Services of the Ministry of Transport, instructed the online ride-hailing firms to set reasonable upper limits on commissions and make them…

The Times of India

AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers: India clubbed with Cambodia, Afghanistan and Hong Kong

NEW DELHI: The Indian team was on Thursday drawn alongside Hong Kong, Afghanistan and Cambodia in Group D of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup final round qualifiers to be played in Kolkata in June this year.

The Independent UK

Hong Kong starts vaccine requirement for restaurants, stores

Hong Kong launched a vaccination requirement to enter shopping malls, restaurants and a host of other places on Thursday as it battles an expanding omicron outbreak and tries to overcome vaccine hesitancy in parts of its population

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China steps in to steer Hong Kong's COVID crisis as risks loom

As COVID-19 rages across Hong Kong at the start of a sensitive political year for China and President Xi Jinping, Beijing is determined not to be embarrassed and undermined as it was by the often-violent protests that rocked the city in 2019.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Virus-hit Hong Kong Invokes Emergency Powers to Allow in China Medics

Hong Kong's government invoked emergency powers on Thursday to allow doctors, nurses and other personnel from the Chinese mainland to help combat a spiraling coronavirus outbreak. The densely populated metropolis is in the throes of its worst-ever Covid wave, registering thousands of cases every day, overwhelming hospitals and government efforts…

Bangkok Post

Thailand to face Uzbekistan in quest for Asian Cup berth

HONG KONG: Southeast Asian champions Thailand will take on 2011 Asian Cup semi-finalists Uzbekistan in the next round of qualifying for the 2023 Asian Cup finals in June.

The Guardian - UK

Covid: Iceland to lift all remaining curbs; coronavirus isolation rules end in England – as it happened

Latest updates: Iceland confirms no extra restrictions for unvaccinated; people in England who test positive for Covid no longer have to self-isolate

Reuters

Hong Kong rolls out COVID vaccine passport, paves way for mainland doctors

Hong Kong rolled out vaccine passports on Thursday requiring people aged 12 and above to have at least one COVID-19 jab, and paved the way for mainland China manpower to help bring a worsening outbreak under control.

Benzinga

Alibaba, Other Tech Stocks Lead Sell-Off In Hong Kong As Russia Launches Attack On Ukraine

Shares of U.S.-listed Chinese tech companies traded mostly higher in Hong Kong on Wednesday, dragging the benchmark Hang Seng Index into negative territory amid news that Russia will launch an attack on Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Hong Kong turns to emergency powers for China help in COVID surge

Authorities say ‘dire epidemic situation’ behind move as territory struggles to contain COVID cases driven by Omicron.

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