dez22
Hong Kong, Beijing must reopen border slowly to prevent new Covid wave, warn experts, politicians ahead of John Lee’s meeting with state leaders
- Health expert Professor David Hui calls for triple-jab requirement for all arrivals, quota for those coming from mainland to safeguard public healthcare system
- Political commentators, meanwhile, predict state leaders will recognise Chief Executive John Lee’s efforts to meet expectations set by President Xi Jinping
- https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3204178/hong-kong-beijing-must-slowly-reopen-border-prevent-new-covid-wave-warn-experts-politicians-ahead
dez22
Coronavirus: Hong Kong lifts all restrictions on arrivals to city, ends ‘0+3’ regime
- Arrivals from Wednesday who test negative will no longer need an amber health code and can enter restaurants and other premises previously off limits to them
- New rules will also do away with scanning of QR code on app to enter citywide premises, but restaurant patrons and entrants to certain venues will still need to show jabs record
- https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3203077/coronavirus-hong-kong-lifts-all-restrictions-arrivals-city-ends-03-regime
dez22
Nasal spray Covid-19 vaccine co-developed by Hong Kong scientists approved for emergency use in mainland China in ‘historic breakthrough’
- Microbiologist Professor Yuen Kwok-yung and team created the emergency use nasal vaccine with mainland university and Beijing drug company
- Pharmaceutical firm confirms that vaccine has been given the green light for mainland use
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3202179/nasal-spray-covid-19-vaccine-co-developed-hong-kong-scientists-approved-emergency-use-mainland-china
out22
Hong Kong’s Economy Records Worst Contraction Since 2020
- GDP drops 4.5% in 3Q amid rate hikes, border disruptions
- Exports still pressured this year by global headwinds: Gov
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-31/hong-kong-s-economy-records-worst-contraction-since-2020
jul22
Hong Kong Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau has said that the “one country, two systems” principle implemented in China’s two SARs meant that Hong Kong could have its own Covid-19 policies and there was no need to copy how the pandemic is handled in mainland China.
In an interview with South China Morning Post (SCMP), Lo stressed the neighbouring SAR enjoys wide latitude under the principle as he forecast that quarantine-free arrivals with conditions could be allowed in time for a global financial and banking summit scheduled to take place in Hong Kong in November.
https://macaonews.org/covid-19/hong-kongs-health-chief-says-one-country-two-systems-means-there-is-no-need-to-copy-mainland-chinas-policies/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=14+July+Daily+Read+%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F&utm_campaign=20220714_Daily+Newsletter
As Hong Kong’s fifth wave wanes, let’s try a mini reopening with Macau
- With Hong Kong’s case numbers showing no serious rebound, it is time to get the economy back on track and look at opening up selectively
- Allowing Hongkongers to travel to Macau would help ease people’s anxiety
- https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3175665/hong-kongs-fifth-wave-wanes-lets-try-mini-reopening-macau?utm_source=cm&utm_medium=txn&utm_campaign=enlz-NOT-Follow&utm_content=20220428&d=109efd5f-1e89-45c7-a29a-4b8b363dfce8
ab22
Hong Kong's Covid-19 curbs are continuing to severely limit travel into the city, with only one flight from outside the Asia Pacific region landing on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The government recently allowed flights from nine countries, including Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, to resume after bans that lasted two to three months, but airlines continue to struggle with the city's strict "zero Covid" policy. Officials this week temporarily banned flights again from India, Pakistan and the Philippines.
As of Wednesday, 11 flight routes from 10 airlines had been temporarily cut off, including those from London and Amsterdam, the government said in a statement.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/20/business/hong-kong-covid-bans-aviation-hub-decay-intl-hnk/index.html
ab22
Hong Kong can’t reduce its one-week quarantine for incoming residents until Beijing moves past Covid Zero, a deputy to China’s top legislature said, showing the constraints facing the financial hub to further opening up internationally.
“For us to cut it down to seven, already the mainland is unhappy and feels they cannot connect with us,” Michael Tien, a National People’s Congress deputy and city lawmaker, said in an interview. “So to go any lower than seven, forget it. If we go lower than seven, they may even ban Hong Kong people from going into Shenzhen.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/china-won-t-let-hong-kong-cut-seven-day-quarantine-tien-says
ab22
Guangdong lockdown ‘would be a disaster’ for Hong Kong’s logistics sector, industry players warn
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3174059/coronavirus-guangdong-lockdown-would-be-disaster-hong
Guangdong lockdown ‘would be a disaster’ for Hong Kong’s logistics sector, industry players warn
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3174059/coronavirus-guangdong-lockdown-would-be-disaster-hong
ab22
Traditional wooden coffins are running short in Hong Kong as authorities scramble to add mortuary space in the global financial hub's battle on COVID-19, which is swamping funeral parlours. "I have never seen so many bodies piled up together," said funeral director Lok Chung, 37, who has been working round the clock, with about 40 funerals organised in March, up from roughly 15 in an average month. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/so-many-bodies-piled-up-hong-kong-funeral-services-overwhelmed-by-covid-2022-04-06/
mar22
Coronavirus: Chinese leader Xi Jinping ‘concerned’ about Hong Kong’s crisis, as top official warns of ‘protracted war’ and urges anti-epidemic work ‘as precise as acupuncture’. Vaccination drive extended to those at home with mobility issues, as city leader concedes earlier measures ‘not enough’. ‘When we were hit with the fifth wave, the vaccination rate among the elderly was still pretty low when compared with mainland China, Singapore and some European cities,’ Carrie Lam says
mar22
Coronavirus: Chinese leader Xi Jinping ‘concerned’ about Hong Kong’s crisis, as top official warns of ‘protracted war’ and urges anti-epidemic work ‘as precise as acupuncture’. Vaccination drive extended to those at home with mobility issues, as city leader concedes earlier measures ‘not enough’. ‘When we were hit with the fifth wave, the vaccination rate among the elderly was still pretty low when compared with mainland China, Singapore and some European cities,’ Carrie Lam says
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3170070/coronavirus-hong-kong-carrie-lam-admits
mar22
Hong Kong records 30,493 new Covid-19 cases, 291 deaths
Medical expert indicates situation stabilising gradually; Macao student tests positive on return from university in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong records 30,493 new Covid-19 cases, 291 deaths
Medical expert indicates situation stabilising gradually; Macao student tests positive on return from university in Hong Kong.
https://macaonews.org/covid-19/hong-kong-records-30493-new-covid-19-cases-291-deaths/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=9+March+Daily+Read+%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F&utm_campaign=20220309_Daily+Newsletter
mar22
Hong Kong -- once lauded as a zero-Covid success story -- is now battling a deadly outbreak reminiscent of the early days of the pandemic, despite having had more than two years to prepare.With locally transmitted cases surging past 312,000 in the city of 7.4 million in just the last two weeks, hospitals and embattled health workers have been stretched to breaking point. The numbers are likely to be far higher due to suspicions people are not reporting their positive test results for fear of being separated from families and put into government isolation facilities.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/05/asia/hong-kong-covid-crisis-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
mar22
A CNN estabeleceu a comparação com outros países ou regiões que seguiram a mesma política numa fase inicial, mas que entretanto já reabriram, abandonando a tolerância zero. A resposta parece estar nas baixas taxas de vacinação, mas também na ineficácia das vacinas chinesas, que levou as próprias autoridades a recomendarem que a terceira dose fosse do tipo mRNA (BioNtech), e na incapacidade da Região em preparar-se atempadamente para o que aí vinha. Mas o que as autoridades de Hong Kong não dizem, e não têm maneira de justificar, é por que razão este desastre ocorre quando se tem todo o apoio de Pequim. Nem para que se querem contornar as leis, dois anos depois de começar a pandemia, numa altura em que a cidade já é governada exclusivamente por "patriotas", em que deixou de existir oposição interna, em que os líderes do movimento pró-democracia foram silenciados, estão exilados ou cumprem pena de prisão.
E tudo depois de ser aprovada uma lei draconiana de segurança interna, da liberdade de imprensa ser cerceada, de se fecharem jornais e se prenderem jornalistas, advogados e activistas, e do sistema eleitoral ter sido alterado para se garantir que a democracia "à ocidental" não funcionaria.
https://delitodeopiniao.blogs.sapo.pt/um-desastre-chamado-tolerancia-zero-13791022
mar22
Hong Kong’s Covid Chaos Is Worsening
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-03-03/coronavirus-daily-deteriorating-conditions-in-hong-kong
mar22
Facilities for storing dead bodies at hospitals and public mortuaries in Hong Kong are at maximum capacity due to a record number of Covid-19 fatalities, the hospital authority said on Monday, as officials battle to control a surge in cases. The global financial hub reported a daily record high of 34,466 new coronavirus infections and 87 deaths on Monday. The city's education secretary said international schools could maintain original term dates.
Facilities for storing dead bodies at hospitals and public mortuaries in Hong Kong are at maximum capacity due to a record number of Covid-19 fatalities, the hospital authority said on Monday, as officials battle to control a surge in cases. The global financial hub reported a daily record high of 34,466 new coronavirus infections and 87 deaths on Monday. The city's education secretary said international schools could maintain original term dates.
ffev22
About ten per cent of the European nationals living in Hong Kong have left the city during the last 18 months, citing the unpredictable COVID-19 measures as the main reason for their leave, the EU Office to Hong Kong and Macao revealed. https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/eu-citizens-leaving-hong-kong-massively-due-to-stringent-covid-19-measures/
About ten per cent of the European nationals living in Hong Kong have left the city during the last 18 months, citing the unpredictable COVID-19 measures as the main reason for their leave, the EU Office to Hong Kong and Macao revealed. https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/eu-citizens-leaving-hong-kong-massively-due-to-stringent-covid-19-measures/
ev22
After
remoulding the media, education, civil society and electoral system in the wake
of the Hong Kong protests in 2019, Beijing has forced the territory to embrace
its zero-Covid policies. It is proving tough for the city’s economy. In concert
with Beijing’s move to shut off its border with Hong Kong, the city’s
connection cords to both China and the rest of the world have effectively been
cut as international travellers, subject to a two-week quarantine, have slowed
to a dribble. Danny Lau whose organisation represents the city’s small- to
medium-sized businesses, said his members “cannot see the end of this black
tunnel”. But apart from the common legal system left over from colonial days
and a convertible currency, there is one other area where Hong Kong is still
distinguishable from the mainland: its leniency when officials breach rules. An
outbreak of about 150 cases of the Delta variant across the border in Guangdong
in August left 11 officials out of work, in one example of the dozens of
Chinese officials disciplined over flare-ups of Covid-19 in the country. In
Hong Kong, however bad the Covid outbreaks have been, officials have by and
large stayed put during the pandemic, even now with cases rising in the city.
Last month, after the first community Omicron cases, it
https://www.ft.com/content/901e32d9-2d42-4f72-874a-a0268f865acc
fev22
Thousands flee to mainland China as Hong Kong outbreak
widens
Chinese people
in Hong Kong are going to great lengths to get back to the mainland as COVID-19
takes hold in the formerly virus-free financial hub, posing a challenge for
officials fearful of contagion.
On Friday,
hundreds of people queued at a border checkpoint between Hong Kong and
Shenzhen, with many waiting hours to get through the checks and processes. Most
have family ties with the mainland or are Chinese nationals studying or working
in Hong Kong.
They join a
stream of people racing to leave Hong Kong: Departures via land routes — all
but one of which go directly to mainland China — tripled to 24,697 in the first
17 days of February from a year earlier, according to Immigration Department
data.
While Hong
Kong’s four-digit daily case numbers pale in comparison with other parts of the
world, the outbreak is now the worst on record for China and bigger than even
the crisis in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic. Health care resources have
become increasingly strained, but the recent deaths of two children, both too
young to be vaccinated, have provided additional fuel to the exodus to mainland
China, where strict and swift anti-virus measures have typically stamped out
flareups quickly.
"Hong Kong only started to vaccinate
children after things hit the fan, which is much slower than the rest of the
world,” said Ben Chu, a 44-year-old entrepreneur who planned to leave for
Shanghai, where his wife already traveled to during the Lunar New Year
holidays, on Sunday. "How can we not be worried as
parents?”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/02/21/asia-pacific/fleeing-mainland-china-hong-kong-outbreak/
fev22
Several tech giants from the Chinese mainland including Tencent, Alibaba and Xiaomi have announced large donations to support Hong Kong as the city is suffering a rise in COVID-19 cases.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252602.shtml
fev22
If Hong Kong does not impose a large-scale seal-off, it should at least step up its current COVID-19 measures and make sure those measures are fully implemented. This way, the city can weather this surge in a short time, Zeng Guang, former chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told the Global Times. He suggested the city first install makeshift hospitals to relieve the pressure from public hospitals and isolation points.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252342.shtml
fev22
The Macau authorities have announced stricter travel measures for inbound travellers from Hong Kong. From 6am today (Thursday, February 17), people arriving in Macau via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge will have to wait at the boundary crossing point for the result of a Covid-19 nucleic acid test, said Macau’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre.
The new measure is “in response to the evolution of the epidemic situation in Hong Kong and in order to reduce the risk of transmission at medical observation hotels” in Macau, said the local authorities.
https://www.ggrasia.com/macau-hk-arrivals-must-wait-at-border-for-covid-test-result/
fev22
O Presidente chinês, Xi Jinping, apontou ontem o combate ao surto de covid-19 em Hong Kong como a “tarefa primordial” do governo local, numa altura em que a região semiautónoma atinge novo máximo diário de casos.
https://pontofinal-macau.com/2022/02/17/xi-jinping-define-combate-ao-surto-como-tarefa-primordial-de-hong-kong/
fev22
Hong Kong has ‘no plans’ for full lockdown, city’s leader insists.
Carrie Lam says ‘scale and speed of the spread of the virus’ has overwhelmed authorities.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/2/15/hong-kong-has-no-plans-for-full-lockdown-citys-leader-insists
Hong Kong rules out citywide lockdown as cases continue to surge
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-leader-says-govt-covid-19-response-not-satisfactory-2022-02-15/
Hong Kong has ‘no plans’ for full lockdown, city’s leader insists.
Carrie Lam says ‘scale and speed of the spread of the virus’ has overwhelmed authorities.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/2/15/hong-kong-has-no-plans-for-full-lockdown-citys-leader-insists
Hong Kong rules out citywide lockdown as cases continue to surge
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-leader-says-govt-covid-19-response-not-satisfactory-2022-02-15/
fev22
Hong Kong's COVID misery deepens with new social restrictions, vegetable shortage
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-leader-says-city-stick-with-dynamic-zero-covid-strategy-now-2022-02-08/
jan22
Hong Kong may not reopen until early 2024 because of its strict COVID-19 policies, which could trigger an exodus of foreign firms and staff and jeopardise the city's role as a financial hub, its European Chamber of Commerce said in a draft report.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-may-maintain-covid-isolation-until-2024-risking-exodus-euro-chamber-2022-01-26/
jan22
Hong Kong Hotel Quarantine Criticized After Omicron Outbreak. Cross-infection in quarantine hotel seeded the virus locally. Thousands in housing estate locked down as omicron spreads
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-24/hong-kong-s-hotel-quarantine-criticized-after-omicron-outbreak
Hong Kong Hotel Quarantine Criticized After Omicron Outbreak. Cross-infection in quarantine hotel seeded the virus locally. Thousands in housing estate locked down as omicron spreads
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-24/hong-kong-s-hotel-quarantine-criticized-after-omicron-outbreak
jan22
Hong Kong hamster massacre: Residents resist ‘zero covid’ city’s pet project
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/20/hong-kong-hamsters-covid/
Thousands of people in Hong Kong volunteered on Wednesday to adopt unwanted hamsters after a mass cull order from the government over COVID-19 fears raised alarm that panicky owners would abandon their pets.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/hong-kongs-covid-19-hamster-cull-sparks-fear-owners-abandoning-pets-2022-01-19/
jan22
Zero-Covid policies threaten Hong Kong’s place in the world
https://www.ft.com/content/dd81844a-31a6-48de-9de5-235ade24c3b5
jqn22
Omicron: top Hong Kong officials caught up in birthday party Covid-19 scandal, sparking rebukes, apologies all round and deep cleaning of government offices, legislature. Home affairs minister Caspar Tsui among 10 bureaucrats at party with suspected Covid-19 case, with Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam expressing ‘deep disappointment’. Just days earlier, Lam had summoned top Cathay Pacific officials to chastise them over aircrew flouting pandemic rules and causing community cluster of Omicron variant
Omicron: top Hong Kong officials caught up in birthday party Covid-19 scandal, sparking rebukes, apologies all round and deep cleaning of government offices, legislature. Home affairs minister Caspar Tsui among 10 bureaucrats at party with suspected Covid-19 case, with Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam expressing ‘deep disappointment’. Just days earlier, Lam had summoned top Cathay Pacific officials to chastise them over aircrew flouting pandemic rules and causing community cluster of Omicron variant
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3162357/omicron-suspected-covid-19-patient-believed-be?utm_medium=email&utm_source=cm&utm_campaign=enlz-today_hk&utm_content=20220107&tpcc=enlz-today_hk&UUID=be617a4ad94afe0506abc10685462f20&next_article_id=3162324&article_id_list=3162357,3162324,3162386,3162411,3162370,3162430,3162423,3162421&tc=7&CMCampaignID=e944ab9c9d2b162e588767662dcf8fa2
jan22
- Hong Kong will be re-imposing strict Covid-19 measures from Friday as the city is bracing for the spread of the highly infectious omicron outbreak. “We are facing a very dire situation of a major community outbreak any time, and that’s why we have to take very decisive measures,” Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Wednesday. Hong Kong recorded 38 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, and has 12,708 confirmed cases so far, according to a government website. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/06/hong-kong-covid-what-will-be-shut-down-starting-jan-7.html
jan22
A Chefe do Executivo de Hong Kong anunciou ontem que o território vai apertar os requisitos de vacinas contra a covid-19 em locais de entretenimento, mas também em bibliotecas, escolas e museus. A medida ontem anunciada está prevista para entrar em vigor no dia 24 de Fevereiro e exigirá que aqueles que entrem nesses locais tenham pelo menos uma dose de vacina contra a covid-19. Este anúncio chega dias depois de Hong Kong ter relatado o seu primeiro surto da nova variante Ómicron, ligado a vários membros da tripulação da Cathay Pacific que tinham quebrado as regras de isolamento e que estiveram em bares em toda a cidade antes de mais tarde testarem positivo
https://pontofinal-macau.com/2022/01/05/hong-kong-vai-impor-vacina-obrigatoria-em-varios-espacos/
dez21
Hong Kong is one of the world's biggest aviation hubs but also has some of the strictest coronavirus regulations in the world. Two pilots tell the BBC how these rules are affecting their mental health and putting a strain on their personal lives. "You're just in a perpetual state of quarantine." Pierre*, a pilot with the city's flagship carrier Cathay Pacific, has spent almost 150 days in isolation in this year alone, he says. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59370672
When a Cathay Pacific pilot checked the company’s seniority list last month, he was shocked by what he saw. Within six months, he had moved up about 400 places – an indication that the same number of pilots had left the airline during the period. The departures at the airline come amid mounting frustration with Hong Kong’s stringent “zero COVID” policy, which has cut off “Asia’s World City” from the world and raised questions about its future as an aviation hub. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/12/9/hk
dez21
Hong Kong will prioritize quarantine-free travel for business people when its China border reopens, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said, warning that the city’s vaccination rate could curb a broader roll-out. “If we cannot raise our vaccination rate, it will be a hindrance to expanding our border reopening plan,” Lam said at a regular press briefing on Tuesday. Only 61% of the city’s people have been fully inoculated, according to Bloomberg’s Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker -- far behind Singapore’s 88% figure. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-07/executives-go-first-when-china-hong-kong-border-opens-lam-says
12/7
Hong Kong third wave: Covid-19 situation ‘getting a bit out of hand’, officials warn as 38 new infections confirmed LINK
14/4
1/4
Coronavirus: Hong Kong residents unhappy with Covid-19 response – and surgical masks one big reason why, Post survey showsOverwhelming majority of respondents say they, not the city government, will deserve credit if epidemic is beaten
Survey shows level of dissatisfaction with government response climbs along with income, education levels LINK (comparar com Macau)
21/3
Hong Kong’s single-day record of 48 new cases signals full onslaught to come. Surge in confirmed cases takes city total to 256 and serves as stark reminder that imported and community infections could overwhelm Hong Kong. Most new patients have returned from overseas amid bleak warnings from health experts fearing tsunami of fresh infections in days ahead LINK
21/3
Coronavirus: university president hits out at Hong Kong student union’s ‘Chinese pneumonia’ statement for ‘harming global Covid-19 fight’ LINK
19/3
Hong Kong had a day with record new infections of 48, refreshing the record daily tally of 25 on Wednesday. This takes the city’s total of confirmed cases to 256. Three were released from hospital, bringing the total discharges to 98, while 312 remain under observation, according to the Centre for Health Protection.
27/2
Local food souvenir group Koi Kei Bakery has announced that due to the Covi-19 epidemic has not shown signs of easing in Hong Kong it will temporarily close three of its store branches in the neighbouring SAR. https://www.macaubusiness.com/koi-kei-bakery-closes-three-hk-branches-due-to-covid-19/
26/2
Hong Kong anunciou hoje medidas de 120 mil milhões de dólares de Hong Kong (14,2 mil milhões de euros) para recuperar a economia afetada pelos protestos antigovernamentais e pelo coronavírus Covid-19. Na apresentação do orçamento para 2020/2021, no parlamento local, o secretário para as Finanças indicou que o Governo de Hong Kong vai distribuir uma ajuda financeira de dez mil dólares de Hong Kong (1.180 euros) a todos os adultos residentes permanentes da cidade, que regista dois mortos e 85 pessoas infetadas com o novo coronavírus https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/economia/covid-19-hong-kong-anuncia-142-mil-milhoes-de-euros-para-recuperar-economia_n1207671
17/2
Opinion: Why Hong Kongers Are Getting Robbed for Toilet Paper
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-02-17/opinion-why-hong-kongers-are-getting-robbed-for-toilet-paper-101516670.html
12/2
Desde que surgiu o primeiro caso do novo coronavírus em Hong Kong, os desentendimentos entre o território autónomo e a China aumentaram. Alegando a proteção da população de Hong Kong contra a transmissão do vírus, os residentes têm ostracizado os chineses no território https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/coronavirus-reacende-animosidades-entre-hong-kong-e-china_n1204787
12/2
Hong Kong authorities will conduct inspections at three other public housing blocks after four residents from a high-rise building in Tsing Yi and a close contact were confirmed to be infected with the deadly coronavirus, prompting a partial evacuation. LINK
9/2
HKJC imposes strict restrictions over coronavirus LINK
7/2
ong Kong notificou Macau de que vai colocar sob quarentena todos aqueles que passarem a fronteira e que tenham estado na China continental nos 14 dias anteriores, foi anunciado esta sexta-feira. https://expresso.pt/internacional/2020-02-07-Coronavirus.-Hong-Kong-impoe-quarentena-a-quem-vier-de-Macau-e-tenha-estado-na-China-ate-14-dias-antes
5/2
Hong Kong will start requiring all travellers from mainland China to be placed on a mandatory 14-day quarantine in the government’s latest bid to battle the coronavirus amid mounting criticism of a tardy containment strategy. Confirming an earlier report by the Post, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said the quarantine measures, which will kick in on February 8, would be via special powers invoked under the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3049238/coronavirus-mandatory-quarantine-anyone-arriving-hong-kong?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mailchimp&utm_campaign=enlz-scmp_today&utm_content=20200206&MCUID=3d06933c40&MCCampaignID=6e8bad19e1&MCAccountID=3775521f5f542047246d9c827&tc=6
4/2
Ligações marítimas de Macau com Hong Kong suspensas.
Os transportes marítimos entre Macau e Hong Kong foram todos cancelados a partir de hoje, segundo anúncio oficial. A decisão foi tomada pela Chefe do Executivo de Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, numa medida tendente a reduzir a propagação do coronavírus. As empresas Turbojet e Cotaijet anunciaram a paragem dos barcos até novas instruções.Todas as ligações entre Macau e Hong Kong passam agora a ser feitas pela ponte Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau, uma medida para possibilitar um maior controlo de movimentos.
Hong Kong third wave: Covid-19 situation ‘getting a bit out of hand’, officials warn as 38 new infections confirmed LINK
13/7
As autoridades de Hong Kong admitiram atrasos na implementação de um sistema de declaração por “código de saúde” para facilitar a movimentação de pessoas entre as cidades vizinhas de Guangdong e Macau e que o programa piloto para um “passaporte sanitário” necessita de revisão. A informação foi avançada pela Chefe do Executivo de Hong Kong, Carrie Lam. “Precisamos de rever quando é que o programa piloto do ‘código de saúde’ para Guangdong-Hong Kong e Hong Kong-Macau estará pronto para ser implementado”, pode ler-se na página oficial da Chefe do Executivo de Hong Kong no Facebook. https://pontofinalmacau.wordpress.com/2020/07/13/hong-kong-admite-rever-programa-piloto-de-passaporte-sanitario-para-guangdong-e-macau/
9/7
The Macao government announced today that the special corridor between Macao and Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) will end on 16 July and there will be no service extension. Speaking at a press conference, Lau Fong Chi from the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said that since the opening of the maritime corridor on 17 June, 1,267 residents have returned home through the Hong Kong airport. During the same period, 670 left the territory through the special boat service that links Macao to the Hong Kong airport. With the decision not to extend the special maritime corridor, Macao’s residents will no longer be able to fly out of the HKIA or return to Macao via the HKIA. https://macaunews.mo/special-corridor-between-macao-and-hkia-will-not-be-extended-after-16-july/
The Macao government announced today that the special corridor between Macao and Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) will end on 16 July and there will be no service extension. Speaking at a press conference, Lau Fong Chi from the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said that since the opening of the maritime corridor on 17 June, 1,267 residents have returned home through the Hong Kong airport. During the same period, 670 left the territory through the special boat service that links Macao to the Hong Kong airport. With the decision not to extend the special maritime corridor, Macao’s residents will no longer be able to fly out of the HKIA or return to Macao via the HKIA. https://macaunews.mo/special-corridor-between-macao-and-hkia-will-not-be-extended-after-16-july/
1jul20~
Officials of the Macau SAR government have denied Hong Kong’s extension of quarantine measures on arrivals from Macau will impact the progress of negotiations between the two jurisdictions on a border reopening.https://www.asgam.com/index.php/2020/07/02/macau-denies-hong-kongs-quarantine-extension-will-affect-border-reopening-negotiations/
11/6
Entre 17 de Junho e 16 de Julho vai funcionar um corredor especial entre o Terminal Marítimo da Taipa e o Aeroporto de Hong Kong. A medida foi anunciada ontem pela secretária para os Assuntos Sociais e Cultura, para facilitar o regresso de residentes de Macau e a saída de pessoas retidas no território. No regresso, os residentes estão sujeitos a observação médica de 14 dias. Elsie Ao Ieong revelou também que as autoridades de Zhuhai vão facilitar a entrada de residentes de Macau, desde que o motivo de deslocação à cidade vizinha seja por questões de negócios, serviços ou situações especiais. https://pontofinalmacau.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/governo-anuncia-abertura-de-corredor-especial-para-aeroporto-de-hong-kong/
15/5
Lawrence Ho doesn’t have the most optimistic outlook for Macau’s reboot. We can’t blame him. The owner of Melco is watching a lot of cash being burnt every day at his three subsidiaries in Macau, the Philippines, and Cyprus. And he is right to lament the fact that Macau’s border reopening appears to be dependent on Hong Kong, which hasn’t been able to contain the coronavirus as well as Macau did. We would go a step further and say it is ridiculous that the border between Macau and Hong Kong is effectively sealed, and yet getting Macau’s border open with Guangdong needs to wait for our snooty cousins across the HZMB to decide whether it is safe enough for the Greater Bay Area “travel bubble” to be created. (MACAU INC)
The central government's high-level office that oversees Hong Kong affairs on Monday threw its weight behind a Hong Kong appellate court's ruling that backed the city government's ban on covering one's face at unlawful assemblies and protests.
A spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office said the ruling will help the law-based governance of the chief executive and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, especially in handling emergencies that endanger public safety, and effectively curbing violence and maintaining public order.http://www.ecns.cn/news/2020-04-14/detail-ifzviiqq6926319.shtml
1/4
Coronavirus: Hong Kong residents unhappy with Covid-19 response – and surgical masks one big reason why, Post survey showsOverwhelming majority of respondents say they, not the city government, will deserve credit if epidemic is beaten
Survey shows level of dissatisfaction with government response climbs along with income, education levels LINK (comparar com Macau)
21/3
Hong Kong’s single-day record of 48 new cases signals full onslaught to come. Surge in confirmed cases takes city total to 256 and serves as stark reminder that imported and community infections could overwhelm Hong Kong. Most new patients have returned from overseas amid bleak warnings from health experts fearing tsunami of fresh infections in days ahead LINK
21/3
Coronavirus: university president hits out at Hong Kong student union’s ‘Chinese pneumonia’ statement for ‘harming global Covid-19 fight’ LINK
19/3
Hong Kong had a day with record new infections of 48, refreshing the record daily tally of 25 on Wednesday. This takes the city’s total of confirmed cases to 256. Three were released from hospital, bringing the total discharges to 98, while 312 remain under observation, according to the Centre for Health Protection.
27/2
Local food souvenir group Koi Kei Bakery has announced that due to the Covi-19 epidemic has not shown signs of easing in Hong Kong it will temporarily close three of its store branches in the neighbouring SAR. https://www.macaubusiness.com/koi-kei-bakery-closes-three-hk-branches-due-to-covid-19/
26/2
Hong Kong anunciou hoje medidas de 120 mil milhões de dólares de Hong Kong (14,2 mil milhões de euros) para recuperar a economia afetada pelos protestos antigovernamentais e pelo coronavírus Covid-19. Na apresentação do orçamento para 2020/2021, no parlamento local, o secretário para as Finanças indicou que o Governo de Hong Kong vai distribuir uma ajuda financeira de dez mil dólares de Hong Kong (1.180 euros) a todos os adultos residentes permanentes da cidade, que regista dois mortos e 85 pessoas infetadas com o novo coronavírus https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/economia/covid-19-hong-kong-anuncia-142-mil-milhoes-de-euros-para-recuperar-economia_n1207671
17/2
Opinion: Why Hong Kongers Are Getting Robbed for Toilet Paper
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-02-17/opinion-why-hong-kongers-are-getting-robbed-for-toilet-paper-101516670.html
12/2
Desde que surgiu o primeiro caso do novo coronavírus em Hong Kong, os desentendimentos entre o território autónomo e a China aumentaram. Alegando a proteção da população de Hong Kong contra a transmissão do vírus, os residentes têm ostracizado os chineses no território https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/coronavirus-reacende-animosidades-entre-hong-kong-e-china_n1204787
12/2
Hong Kong authorities will conduct inspections at three other public housing blocks after four residents from a high-rise building in Tsing Yi and a close contact were confirmed to be infected with the deadly coronavirus, prompting a partial evacuation. LINK
9/2
HKJC imposes strict restrictions over coronavirus LINK
7/2
ong Kong notificou Macau de que vai colocar sob quarentena todos aqueles que passarem a fronteira e que tenham estado na China continental nos 14 dias anteriores, foi anunciado esta sexta-feira. https://expresso.pt/internacional/2020-02-07-Coronavirus.-Hong-Kong-impoe-quarentena-a-quem-vier-de-Macau-e-tenha-estado-na-China-ate-14-dias-antes
5/2
Hong Kong will start requiring all travellers from mainland China to be placed on a mandatory 14-day quarantine in the government’s latest bid to battle the coronavirus amid mounting criticism of a tardy containment strategy. Confirming an earlier report by the Post, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said the quarantine measures, which will kick in on February 8, would be via special powers invoked under the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3049238/coronavirus-mandatory-quarantine-anyone-arriving-hong-kong?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mailchimp&utm_campaign=enlz-scmp_today&utm_content=20200206&MCUID=3d06933c40&MCCampaignID=6e8bad19e1&MCAccountID=3775521f5f542047246d9c827&tc=6
4/2
Ligações marítimas de Macau com Hong Kong suspensas.
Os transportes marítimos entre Macau e Hong Kong foram todos cancelados a partir de hoje, segundo anúncio oficial. A decisão foi tomada pela Chefe do Executivo de Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, numa medida tendente a reduzir a propagação do coronavírus. As empresas Turbojet e Cotaijet anunciaram a paragem dos barcos até novas instruções.Todas as ligações entre Macau e Hong Kong passam agora a ser feitas pela ponte Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau, uma medida para possibilitar um maior controlo de movimentos.
https://macauhub.com.mo/pt/2020/02/04/pt-ligacoes-maritimas-de-macau-com-hong-kong-suspensas/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Macauhub_PT+%28Macauhub_PT%29
Adecisão unilateral de Carrie Lam de fechar as ligações marítimas para o centro de Hong Kong é um ataque totalmente injustificado à RAEM e é uma vergonha, que merecia um protesto por parte dos dirigentes de Macau. Hong Kong está a dar um mau exemplo ao mundo, ao mostrar que a RAEM pode ser isolada. A partir de agora é mais fácil para outros países e jurisdições seguirem o mesmo caminho e fecharem ligações aéreas. Se até a uma região da China o faz… https://hojemacau.com.mo/2020/02/04/ataque-a-macau/ “Digo francamente que Hong Kong não falou com a parte de Macau sobre o fecho do terminal marítimo. Mas também acho que isto não é necessário porque agora, se é para fechar os casinos também não vou contactar antecipadamente o Governo de Hong Kong”, explicou o Chefe do Executivo https://hojemacau.com.mo/2020/02/05/suspensao-de-ferries-hong-kong-nao-falou-com-macau-disse-chefe-do-executivo/
decisão unilateral de Carrie Lam de fechar as ligações marítimas para o centro de Hong Kong é um ataque totalmente injustificado à RAEM e é uma vergonha, que merecia um protesto por parte dos dirigentes de Macau. Hong Kong está a dar um mau exemplo ao mundo, ao mostrar que a RAEM pode ser isolada. A partir de agora é mais fácil para outros países e jurisdições seguirem o mesmo caminho e fecharem ligações aéreas. Se até a uma região da China o faz… https://hojemacau.com.mo/2020/02/04/ataque-a-macau/
Adecisão unilateral de Carrie Lam de fechar as ligações marítimas para o centro de Hong Kong é um ataque totalmente injustificado à RAEM e é uma vergonha, que merecia um protesto por parte dos dirigentes de Macau. Hong Kong está a dar um mau exemplo ao mundo, ao mostrar que a RAEM pode ser isolada. A partir de agora é mais fácil para outros países e jurisdições seguirem o mesmo caminho e fecharem ligações aéreas. Se até a uma região da China o faz… https://hojemacau.com.mo/2020/02/04/ataque-a-macau/ “Digo francamente que Hong Kong não falou com a parte de Macau sobre o fecho do terminal marítimo. Mas também acho que isto não é necessário porque agora, se é para fechar os casinos também não vou contactar antecipadamente o Governo de Hong Kong”, explicou o Chefe do Executivo https://hojemacau.com.mo/2020/02/05/suspensao-de-ferries-hong-kong-nao-falou-com-macau-disse-chefe-do-executivo/
decisão unilateral de Carrie Lam de fechar as ligações marítimas para o centro de Hong Kong é um ataque totalmente injustificado à RAEM e é uma vergonha, que merecia um protesto por parte dos dirigentes de Macau. Hong Kong está a dar um mau exemplo ao mundo, ao mostrar que a RAEM pode ser isolada. A partir de agora é mais fácil para outros países e jurisdições seguirem o mesmo caminho e fecharem ligações aéreas. Se até a uma região da China o faz… https://hojemacau.com.mo/2020/02/04/ataque-a-macau/
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