COULD COVID-19 be good for you? Surely not. Yet statistics show that people in mainland China and Hong Kong have turned the coronavirus into a positive factor for public health in some ways, at least.
The Chinese response has been very thorough: as a result,
they prevented hundreds of thousands of people from catching the virus…
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FLEW INTO Hong Kong on November 11 hiding in the nasal passages of a passenger
from South Africa. The man was fully vaccinated and would have been allowed to
roam freely, maskless, infecting hundreds with the new Covid-19 variant, had he
travelled to other places.
But Hong Kong’s tough rules forced him to stay masked at all times,…
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