No jurisdiction has managed a flawless COVID response, says Richard Cullen. But China, despite its imperfect COVID management experience, did better than any other major jurisdiction and, in fact, displayed many examples of early-best-practice unseen elsewhere. Exasperatingly, the West found, yet again, that it there is much it can learn from China - and then,…
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION says it will veto a global plan to allow countries to ignore patents and make their own Covid-19 vaccines unless the Chinese are specifically excluded, Bloomberg reported.
The sudden move has jolted top health workers who were hoping that the long-promised patent waiver would enable them to make vaccines available to everyone,…
SHENZHEN HEALTH OFFICIALS are going out of their way to give a first class service to pets of people in quarantine, avoiding the negative stories that have been seen in some other parts of China on this subject.
Many Chinese people, some of them being the post-'90s generation, have embraced parenthood – but of pets,…
For two years, Hong Kong demonstrated an admirable capacity to retain robust control of COVID-19 outbreaks. This durable achievement was, however, grimly transformed by the Omicron driven fifth wave of COVID cases. Richard Cullen looks at what went wrong
A RESPECTED, VETERAN Hong Kong journalist, Peter Kammerer, argued in the South China Morning Post…
Numbers of available beds rises fast as facilities come on line
Vax rate for elderly rises, for 40-somethings hits 99.88 per cent
Hong Kong has always been a survivor, says Chief Executive Carrie Lam
Many community medical facilities are actually hotels, including some luxury ones
AN “INSTANT HOSPITAL” was built in a week in…
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…
OMICRON
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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The Economist earlier this year confidently told the world that China would fail to achieve a reasonable level of vaccination until late in 2022. Here’s the chart.
But the data shows that China speedily achieved one of the…
Quietly altered death certificates add to the mystery; first confirmed Covid deaths in US and China on the same day
Six week process brought dangerous variant under control