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Hong Kong reports 140 new human cases of Covid-19 and one from a surrendered hamster
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Hong Kong saw 140 new Covid-19 cases on January 23, 2022, its highest daily increase since July 2020. The majority came from a Kwai Chung public housing estate, which has become the epicentre of the city’s fifth wave of infections. All of the residents have been issued compulsory testing orders with two buildings in the housing…
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Officials from Hong Kong’s Department of Health and Hospital Authority are holding a press briefing on the latest coronavirus pandemic situation in the city. Source: HK Information Services Department
Indians born and bred in Hong Kong explain why the city will always be home
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Born and raised in Hong Kong, Kawaljot Kaur and Yusuf Mohideen proudly consider the city to be home, describing themselves as “Indian-Hongkongers”. Immersed in the city’s culture and food, they have long made an effort to mingle with the local community in hopes of breaking down social divisions. Support us: https://subscribe.scmp.com Follow us on: Website: https://www.scmp.com…
Coronavirus: ‘exponential’ outbreak of Omicron triggers lockdowns in Hong Kong housing blocks
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Hong Kong health authorities have ordered a five-day lockdown for a second block of flats in a public housing estate building where at least 105 Covid-19 cases were found during mass testing that continued late on January 22, 2022. The outbreak involved at least four buildings of the Kwai Chung Estate in the city’s southwestern New…
Hong Kong to kill 2,000 hamsters after Covid-19 found in rodents at pet shop
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube After a worker at a pet shop in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay district was confirmed to have Covid-19, health authorities discovered 11 hamsters at the store were infected with the same Delta variant of the coronavirus on January 18, 2022. The outbreak at the Little Boss pet shop is reportedly the first known case of the…
Hong Kong’s Fenwick Pier to be demolished after serving foreign navy sailors for decades
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Hong Kong’s Fenwick Pier, which has welcomed foreign navy ships and sailors for decades, will be shut down on February 11, 2022. Owned by the non-profit Servicemen’s Guides Association (SGA), the city’s only American navy pier was built in 1970 on what was once the harbourfront in the Wan Chai district. After Britain returned its former…
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