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Data says China, NZ strategy better than ‘living with Covid’

THE DATA IS IN. While columnists wave the flag for “living with Covid”, top medical journals say the numbers tell a different story: the minimizing "Covid elimination" strategy associated with China, New Zealand, and a few other places, is statistically better for public health, the economy, and even civil freedoms. Fridayeveryday looks at the numbers…

March 31, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

China’s firm, serious approach to managing the Covid pandemic has differed from that of many other countries, and has clearly worked rather well. Yet Western media outlets feel compelled to tell China that it has slipped badly behind the times by not shifting, as they have, to Living with Covid. Seeing other (surely inferior!) societies doing…

March 31, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

Life

Covid rising all over ‘too relaxed’ UK, scientists warn

THE UK DROPPED all pandemic restrictions too fast – and Covid-19 is back. Numbers of cases and hospitalizations are rising in all regions and all age groups. Figures released on Wednesday saw infections jump by more than 50 per cent and deaths by two thirds in a week. This has been accompanied by a…

March 12, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

Opinion

Co-ordination and support key for Hong Kong covid fight

Even though Hong Kong's Covid wave may have peaked, better coordination and mutual support is a must for a successful response, says Henry Ho MORE THAN A MONTH into the fight against the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong, with the strong support of the central government of China, daily confirmed cases and…

March 12, 20220Comments ByHenry Ho

Opinion

Finding a Hong Kong answer to the Covid problem

HONG KONG HAS BEEN caught in the fifth wave of COVID-19 since the start of the Lunar New Year, with daily infections surpassing the highest numbers seen since the outbreak started two years ago. Many voices have questioned the feasibility of Hong Kong's zero-covid policy, pointing to the fact that countries that previously had…

February 21, 20220Comments ByHenry Ho

Features

Mainland anti-Covid plan could work in Hong Kong

SOME PEOPLE ARE saying that the “test the whole population” system that worked so well in China could not be implemented in a non-mainland city like Hong Kong, which leans towards Western individualism rather than Chinese cohesiveness. That may not be true. The same Chinese “universal testing” program was tried in Macao, which has…

February 19, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

News

New strain of Covid is stalking, killing people in this town

Forty-six sudden deaths leave community in shock New BA.2 strain producing worrying results in trials Health officials’ worst fears have emerged in densely populated city A KILLER HAS COME TO TOWN. In Hong Kong, 46 lives have been snatched at high speed by a strain of Covid in a shocked city which has been astonishingly free of…

February 18, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

Zero Covid: reactions to NZ versus China

It's amusing to compare the rapturous headlines from when New Zealand achieved zero covid, not long ago, to today's negative ones for China; This report can be read as text, by scrolling down, or watched as a video, by clicking here. HAVE YOU HEARD what the Chinese are doing now? They are forcing their citizens…

January 24, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi