#FirstHand #Feb23 #HongKongProtests
Police Enter Private Property

2113 | Kowloon Bay
Riot police suddenly entered Richard Gardens, a private housing estate.

Residents told the police, "This is private property. If you wish to check anything in Richland Gardens Shopping Center, just go there.”

#FirstHand #Feb23
2117 | Kowloon Bay
Near Richland Gardens, riot police put on gears next to their vehicles.

#FirstHand #Protests
Voice of the People: Kowloon Bay Residents Voice Their Detestation

2126 | Richland Gardens, Kowloon Bay
Citizens chanted slogans to express their detestation, “Object the designation of a clinic for patients with the Wuhan pneumonia!”, “Our home we save ourselves!”.

Large amount of riot police and plainclothes police were standing-by alongside the route of the protest.

#Feb23 #KowloonBay #RichlandGardens #DesignatedClinics

#DailyUpdate #Feb23 #COVID19

COVID-19 Updates (23/2):

The total number of infected is now standing at 78966 where the number of deaths is now at 2468. 76940 confirmed cases and 2443 deaths are from mainland China.

The number of confirmed cases in Italy surged from 3 to 134 from Friday morning to today. 2 deaths have been reported in Italy. 3 Italy Serie A football games have been cancelled due to the outbreak.

Italian authorities have announced closures in the northern cities, including public buildings closure, limited transport and quarantine arrangements for possible individuals who contacted with the coronavirus. Patient zero is still yet to be identified.

Third death reported onboard Diamond Princess; the reported patient was a man in his 80s.

In Hong Kong, 4 more individuals returned from Diamond Princess are confirmed infected by COVID-19 after briefly quarantined at Chun Yeung Estate, raising the total to 5.

The third chartered plane sent by HKSAR government has arrived Hong Kong this morning, the 5 Diamond Princess passengers were sent to Chun Yeung Estate for quarantine.

A total of 85 close contacts have been found for the riot police officer in Hong Kong who was confirmed with the novel coronavirus.

Japan’s Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Katsunobu Kato admitted 23 passengers disembarked from Diamond Princess did not receive any medical inspection for the novel coronavirus in the 14 days inspection period.

Kato mentioned the use of Avigan to cure coronavirus patients from today.

25 Diamond Princess passengers who took chartered planes to leave Japan have confirmed with COVID-19, including 18 Americans, 6 Australians and 1 Israeli.

South Korea has 166 new cases reported in a single day, giving a total of 602 in the country. South Korea is now the country with second most number of infected individual outside China. 6 deaths were reported.

Israel banned the entry of South Korea tourists. Macau announced entrants who had been to S. Korea are required to receive medical inspection.

U.S. Department of State and CDC issued Level 2 travel advisories for Japan and South Korea, American nationals are suggested to “exercise increased caution” if visiting those countries.

6 deaths are reported in Iran. 43 cases are now confirmed in the country. In Arak, schools, universities, sports centers and language centers have been closed. All theatres and arts center have been closed in Iran.

Founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, donated 5 million USD to support China’s measures against the epidemic. He promised an addition of at most 100 million USD would be donated. Gates wrote a letter to Chinese leader Xi JinPing and praised his work in the coronavirus outbreak.

Source: Now news, RTHK, CNN, VOA news, World Meter

Hong Kong Government to Beijing : Carry Out Political Retribution on Medical Staff

Read here:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/17746

#23Feb #PoliticalRetribution #MedicalStaff #Strike

Hong Kong Government to Beijing : Carry Out Political Retribution on Medical Staff

The recent epidemic report submitted by the Chief Executive’s Office to the Central Government has specifically mentioned the largest medical staff strike in Hong Kong history. The report described the medical union that initiated the strike as “black sheep”. They were also falsely labeled as affiliated with anti-extradition protestors. It was also mentioned in the report that the government has demanded the Hospital Authority to take action against those who organized the strike, stating that these “black sheep should not be allowed to continue working in the hospitals”.

In the submitted report, the Chief Executive’s Office criticized the union’s demand to close the border, saying it was only a “slogan” and that many citizens were being misled in forming this mainstream opinion. The report mentioned that the SAR government has refused to be involved, and that Chief Executive Carrie Lam has turned down meetings with unions. They emphasized SAR government’s strong stance by reiterating they will not enforce a total border shutdown, will not impose travel restrictions on mainland residents and will respect mainland authorities in handling immigration matters.

Ivan Law, the Vice-Chairman of the HA Employees Alliance criticized the report as not reflecting the facts and believed that it was meant to discredit the union. He pointed out a few false descriptions in the report: that the reason for terminating the strike was not due to public dissatisfaction; the reason for the strike was not political; and the demand for border shutdown was not discriminatory against mainland citizens.

Law stated that although the members of the union were prepared to face political retribution and funds have been reserved to aid those members on strike. He said he “did not expect that the government would issue a written statement explicitly asking the Hospital Authority to take action against striking members.”

Source: Apple Daily #23Feb
Image: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/17745
#PoliticalRetribution #MedicalStaff #Strike

Quarantine areas for police, civilians and healthcare workers

#SARS #ChinesePneumonia #FailedState
Former SARS Fighter Criticiszed HKSAR Government for not Learning from the Past Tragedy

Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of CUHK Leung Ping-chung, who fighted against SARS in 2003, pointed out that the government did not learn from the experience back then and make comprehensive plans before the epidemic attacked our city.

Leung stated, ”There had yet been the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, but only the Pearl River Delta 17 years ago. There were fewer ports in the Pearl River Delta, but the Delta resembled the current Greater Bay Area. Thus, it was advised that Hong Kong government should cooperate with the mainland to establish guidelines on joint efforts to intercept travellers and to fight against the epidemic, and such guidance will benefit everyone in the Pearl River Delta. However, for the moment, no such measure was implemented. Each government just goes on its own way.”

Source: NOW News #Feb23 #ChinesePneumonia

Money speaks louder than humanity:
World Photography Awards remove Hong Kong protest images raise speculations about self-censorship

Hong Kong artist Chung-Ming Ko entered finalist round of 2020 Sony World Photography Awards with his works “Wounds of Hong Kong.” However, on #Feb14, he found the link to his collection was broken, who went on and discovered two more series “Battleground Hong Kong” by American photographer David Butow and “Hong Kong Protestors” by Australian artist Adam Ferguson were disappeared. The WPO defended the decision, in an initial reply to inquiries, by saying they were taken down temporarily over the “sensitive nature” of his images.

The edited series was uploaded, with only four left out of the original series of 10 pictures. Ko bewailed the decision by the judges. “I don’t know who’s complaining and what their concerns are. But why should any ‘concerns’ not be addressed by the judges at the judging phase?” asked Ko in a response to Hong Kong Free Press. Nevertheless, he still hoped to share his photos in Hong Kong (now numbered at 20). “If WPO couldn’t release these Hong Kong protest-related photos for now, I hoped to share it here,” he said on his Facebook Page.

Link to Ko’s works “Wounds of Hong Kong”:
https://bit.ly/39NsHbL

Only 5 pictures remained in another series “Battleground Hong Kong” by David Butow:
https://bit.ly/2SW4v06

No pictures were deleted in Adam Ferguson’s “Hong Kong Protestors”.
https://bit.ly/2SVJwud

Ironically, photojournalist Mustafa Hassona won 3rd place in last year’s WPO by “Palestinian Right of Return Protests”, which captured moments in the Palestinian movement.
https://bit.ly/2HCLhr5

Meanwhile, Title Sponsor of WPO Sony Corporation, hardly-battered over accusations of self-censorship, issued a statement that affirms that although Sony is the title sponsor, the contest was operated by the WPO independently.

WPO team
https://www.worldphoto.org/meet-the-team

Source: USP, HKFP #Feb19 #SelfCensorship

First victim of tear-gas caused lung damage expressed his wish to become a “silent mentor”

#Summary

What has World Health Organization (WHO) said about coronavirus since 10 Jan, 2020?

10 January, 2020
WHO said there was ‘no reason’ to impose travel restrictions or trade restrictions due to the COVID-19 outbreak in China.

24 January, 2020
WHO said it was not yet a global health emergency and “no evidence of human-to-human transmission cases outside of China.” WHO director's Tedros applauded China for taking strong and effective measures in preventing transmission of the virus.

30 January, 2020
WHO declared COVID-19 to pose a public health emergency of international concern

3 February, 2020
WHO said there was no need for immediate measures to intervene with international travel nor trade. Tedros continued to praise China of managing the epidemic and said they were in a position to stop it, and was impressed by China's President Xi’s leadership and insights. Tedros asked other nations not to be overreactive and not to believe in rumours, in view of the imposition of evacuation plan and restrictions on China.

6 February, 2020
Tedros said if China concealed information about the epidemic, there would be more people infected.

8 February, 2020
WHO paid tribute to the whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang

16 February, 2020
WHO said there was no need to cancel or relocate the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

18 February, 2020
WHO warned not to be over optimistic even though the number of increasing cases kept declining everyday.

19 February, 2020
WHO claimed there was no social outbreak outside of China

22 February, 2020
WHO warned the chance to suppress the epidemic is decreasing.

Source: Devex, Rfi, Now News, RTHK, CNN, Liberty Times

Editor’s Note: Perhaps that’s why some people gave certain speeches about the WHO on YouTube.

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WHO Director General Needs to Be Fired

Source: Shrimp Zoo’s Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDJBb4ygi7k

Miracles are everywhere in China