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‘Unprecedented’ mental health issues seen in Hong Kong amid virus fears
HONG KONG (Reuters) – As Hong Kong tries to contain the coronavirus outbreak, medical experts say many in the Asian financial hub are reeling from increased anxiety and an unprecedented level of mental health issues. FILE PHOTO: Derek Au, a 46-year-old manager at a non-profit organization, plays a board game with his wife and children …
Coronavirus closes Hong Kong courts, and reveals their neglect of technology
By Janet Pang As tens of thousands of corporate lawyers and civil servants work from home while the Covid-19 epidemic hits Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Judiciary is a rare branch of government which has not exploited technological advances, with a significant backlog of cases and applications piling up. File photo: Tom Grundy/HKFP. Barristers and …
Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai sentenced to ten years in Chinese jail
Gui, 55, was sentenced by a court in the eastern city of Ningbo. According to a court statement posted online, Gui pleaded guilty to the charge and said he would not appeal. Gui was one of five Hong Kong-based booksellers who went missing in late 2015, before resurfacing in Chinese police custody. Known as the …
Coronavirus Live Updates: Hong Kong Reports Its First Death From Outbreak
Hong Kong’s first death comes amid calls for border shutdown. A 39-year-old man in Hong Kong died Tuesday from the new coronavirus, the city’s Hospital Authority said. The death from the outbreak was the first in Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese territory, and the second outside mainland China. A man in the Philippines who was …
Coronavirus: Hong Kong health workers to strike in China border row as deaths pass 300 | Global development
Thousands of Hong Kong medical workers have voted to go on strike, calling for the government to close the border with mainland China, as the death toll from the Coronavirus outbreak rose to 304. The financial hub had 13 confirmed cases of the disease as of Saturday, with 112 patients isolated. Across China, there were …
Coronavirus Live Updates: Hong Kong Restricts Travel From Mainland China as Infections Exceed 4,500
Death toll exceeds 100 as number of infections skyrockets. The outbreak of a mysterious new virus is rapidly spreading, the Chinese authorities said on Tuesday, as the official account of known cases jumped nearly 60 percent overnight and the death toll exceeded 100 for the first time. ◆ China said on Tuesday that 106 people …
Hong Kong declares emergency and closes schools
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Saturday her government is raising its response level to the highest level – emergency – and closing schools for two weeks, as authorities rush to contain the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The outbreak, which started in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, has left 41 people dead in China. The …
First case of SARS-like virus in Hong Kong – sources
Hong Kong has recorded its first case of the new mysterious SARS-like coronavirus from China, according to sources. A mainland passenger arrived on the G5607 Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link train in Hong Kong at 7:54pm on Tuesday with signs of a fever, a spokesperson for the MTR Corporation (MTRC) told HKFP. The man told Department of Health officials that …
Hong Kong police arrest protesters in shopping mall
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong police arrested about a dozen protesters and used pepper spray on Saturday to break up a protest in a shopping mall aimed at disrupting retail businesses near the border with mainland China. Demonstrators have been targeting malls across Hong Kong since earlier this week and more than a hundred protesters, many dressed in …
Pro-democracy lawmakers Au Nok-hin and Gary Fan lose seats as Hong Kong’s top court rejects election petition appeals
Pro-democracy lawmakers Au Nok-hin and Gary Fan have lost their seats after Hong Kong’s top court rejected their applications to appeal separate court rulings that rendered them unduly elected. Au filed an application to appeal the election petition of Agnes Chow, and Fan filed an application to appeal the election petition of Ventus Lau. The …
