#Coronavirus #Border
Mainland Chinese Woman Awaiting Deportation in Hong Kong is Found Postive for Covid After Contacting 23 Officers
According to the Health authorities in Hong Kong, on November 1, they found 7 imported cases of Covid19 in the city.
Among them, a 42-year-old mainland woman awaiting deportation was found positive with Covid-19. The woman was arrested on October 28 during an anti-prostitution operation.
The police said 23 officers were in contact with her and four officers need to be quarantined, due to close contact.
Source: RTHK #Nov1
Image: Cupid News
#Deportation #quarantine
Mainland Chinese Woman Awaiting Deportation in Hong Kong is Found Postive for Covid After Contacting 23 Officers
According to the Health authorities in Hong Kong, on November 1, they found 7 imported cases of Covid19 in the city.
Among them, a 42-year-old mainland woman awaiting deportation was found positive with Covid-19. The woman was arrested on October 28 during an anti-prostitution operation.
The police said 23 officers were in contact with her and four officers need to be quarantined, due to close contact.
Source: RTHK #Nov1
Image: Cupid News
#Deportation #quarantine
#Coronavirus #FailedState
Carrie Lam boasts care for mainland Chinese, ignoring potential coronavirus outbreak in schools after students visited popular tourist spots among mainlanders
Source: Apple Daily #Nov10; RTHK #Nov6
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Carrie Lam boasts care for mainland Chinese, ignoring potential coronavirus outbreak in schools after students visited popular tourist spots among mainlanders
Source: Apple Daily #Nov10; RTHK #Nov6
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#Coronavirus #FailedState
Carrie Lam boasts care for mainland Chinese, ignoring potential coronavirus outbreak in schools after students visited popular tourist spots among mainlanders
Chief Executive Carrie Lam summarised her trip to Beijing, reassuring mainland Chinese citizens that the present 14-days quarantine arrangement would only be lifted when the precondition of protecting people's health was met.
She even went on stressing that her administration will neither put local economic benefits nor Hong Kong residents' appeal above health concerns of mainland Chinese citizens.
The compulsory 14-days quarantine arrangement, however, is set to be relaxed to give way to the launch of "Leave Home Safe" app which records people's whereabouts and notify them if they have visited a place which is subsequently linked to a Covid-19 infection.
Testing public response, Chief Secretary for Administration Cheung Kin Chung mentioned that the App will be launched alongside a series of exemptions for residents returning from Guangdong Province or Macau from compulsory 14-days quarantine. Cheung also highlighted details of implementation of “Travel Bubble” in the next few days.
In past few days, number of COVID-19 imported cases continued to increase in Hong Kong, while an invisible transmission chain appeared in Tai Po. In a primary school in Kowloon Tong, 65 children have been infected with respiratory tract infections. The school received calls from parents who said they had taken their children to Ocean Park, Disneyland and Music Farm last week, popular tourist spots among mainland visitors in Hong Kong.
Source: RTHK #Nov6; Apple Daily #Nov10
#COVID19 #School
Carrie Lam boasts care for mainland Chinese, ignoring potential coronavirus outbreak in schools after students visited popular tourist spots among mainlanders
Chief Executive Carrie Lam summarised her trip to Beijing, reassuring mainland Chinese citizens that the present 14-days quarantine arrangement would only be lifted when the precondition of protecting people's health was met.
She even went on stressing that her administration will neither put local economic benefits nor Hong Kong residents' appeal above health concerns of mainland Chinese citizens.
The compulsory 14-days quarantine arrangement, however, is set to be relaxed to give way to the launch of "Leave Home Safe" app which records people's whereabouts and notify them if they have visited a place which is subsequently linked to a Covid-19 infection.
Testing public response, Chief Secretary for Administration Cheung Kin Chung mentioned that the App will be launched alongside a series of exemptions for residents returning from Guangdong Province or Macau from compulsory 14-days quarantine. Cheung also highlighted details of implementation of “Travel Bubble” in the next few days.
In past few days, number of COVID-19 imported cases continued to increase in Hong Kong, while an invisible transmission chain appeared in Tai Po. In a primary school in Kowloon Tong, 65 children have been infected with respiratory tract infections. The school received calls from parents who said they had taken their children to Ocean Park, Disneyland and Music Farm last week, popular tourist spots among mainland visitors in Hong Kong.
Source: RTHK #Nov6; Apple Daily #Nov10
#COVID19 #School
Hundreds of People Protested Against the Push for Chinese Vaccination in Brazil São Paulo
More than 300 people demonstrated in the central business district of São Paolo, the biggest city in Brazil, on Sunday local times (Nov 1), opposing the measures suggested by the state governor João Doria on the universal COVID-19 vaccination, as well as opposing the authorities on the use of vaccines from a Chinese company Sinovac Biotech.
Protest participants expressed support for President Jair Bolsonaro, who opposed the use of Chinese vaccines. Some even viewed João Doria as China’s ambassador, forcing them to take the Chinese vaccines.
Doria earlier stated that as long as the vaccines were available and sufficient, he planned to force the citizens of São Paolo to vaccinate. However, President Bolsonaro indicated earlier that vaccination was only voluntary. Reports stated that the local Supreme Court would make a verdict on the issue later.
Source: Stand News #Nov02
#Wuhan #Coronavirus #COVID19 #COVID #SaoPaolo #Brazil #JoaoDoria #Doria #JairBolsonaro #Bolsonaro #Vaccines #ChineseVaccine #SinovacBiotech
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More than 300 people demonstrated in the central business district of São Paolo, the biggest city in Brazil, on Sunday local times (Nov 1), opposing the measures suggested by the state governor João Doria on the universal COVID-19 vaccination, as well as opposing the authorities on the use of vaccines from a Chinese company Sinovac Biotech.
Protest participants expressed support for President Jair Bolsonaro, who opposed the use of Chinese vaccines. Some even viewed João Doria as China’s ambassador, forcing them to take the Chinese vaccines.
Doria earlier stated that as long as the vaccines were available and sufficient, he planned to force the citizens of São Paolo to vaccinate. However, President Bolsonaro indicated earlier that vaccination was only voluntary. Reports stated that the local Supreme Court would make a verdict on the issue later.
Source: Stand News #Nov02
#Wuhan #Coronavirus #COVID19 #COVID #SaoPaolo #Brazil #JoaoDoria #Doria #JairBolsonaro #Bolsonaro #Vaccines #ChineseVaccine #SinovacBiotech
https://bit.ly/2GMMaQZ
#PressFreedom #RightoKnow
Journalist Unions Condemn HK Government for Limiting the Right to Know, As Press Briefing Goes Online Without Consultation
On Jan 3, 2021, the Hong Kong government's Department of Health suddenly announced that, in order to "reduce risk of spreading the coronavirus", the daily COVID press briefing will be held as a live broadcast beginning on Jan 4, 2021. All questions by the press would only be accepted in written format.
The Hong Kong Journalists Association and 8 other press unions issued a statement later that evening, criticizing the government's intention to filter and avoid sensitive questions and infringe the journalists’ right to raise further questions and the public’s right to know.
The journalists' associations also demanded the government to revert the decision and hold the press briefing as the way it used to be.
In the statement, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (#HKJA) together with other unions that represented Stand News, RTHK, hkCNews, Next Digital, Mingpao, the Independent Commentators Association, and the Hong Kong Press Photographers Association criticised the government's unreasonable and sudden decision before consulting the press.
They worried that sensitive questions would be filtered and avoided from now on, further eroding the freedom of the press in Hong Kong.
Source: Stand News #Jan3
#FailedState #Coronavirus #PressBriefing #Whitewash
Journalist Unions Condemn HK Government for Limiting the Right to Know, As Press Briefing Goes Online Without Consultation
On Jan 3, 2021, the Hong Kong government's Department of Health suddenly announced that, in order to "reduce risk of spreading the coronavirus", the daily COVID press briefing will be held as a live broadcast beginning on Jan 4, 2021. All questions by the press would only be accepted in written format.
The Hong Kong Journalists Association and 8 other press unions issued a statement later that evening, criticizing the government's intention to filter and avoid sensitive questions and infringe the journalists’ right to raise further questions and the public’s right to know.
The journalists' associations also demanded the government to revert the decision and hold the press briefing as the way it used to be.
In the statement, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (#HKJA) together with other unions that represented Stand News, RTHK, hkCNews, Next Digital, Mingpao, the Independent Commentators Association, and the Hong Kong Press Photographers Association criticised the government's unreasonable and sudden decision before consulting the press.
They worried that sensitive questions would be filtered and avoided from now on, further eroding the freedom of the press in Hong Kong.
Source: Stand News #Jan3
#FailedState #Coronavirus #PressBriefing #Whitewash
Wuhan lockdown diarist Fang Fang on writing to preserve the truth
Chinese novelist Fang Fang, the pen name of Wang Fang, was in a funk when she decided to become the unofficial chronicler of life under coronavirus-included lockdown in Wuhan, where the virus was first discovered in December 2019.
Fang Fang criticised local officials’ early mistakes and cover-ups, aspects of the response the Chinese Communist party has since airbrushed out of the official narrative. Her descriptions of chaotic events also elicited sympathy for the people of her city, in a tacit rebuke of rightwing commentators in the US who labelled the disease the “Wuhan virus”. Her posts were translated into English and collected as a book, Wuhan Diary. The April announcement of its publication sparked online abuse as leftists in China accused her of “handing a knife to foreigners” and spreading “distorted values”.
She has stuck to her criticisms of the Wuhan authorities, even as the party intensified efforts to spin its response as an unblemished success.
Source: FT #Dec04
https://www.ft.com/content/a8995095-7379-4e01-8070-2a54d4b47180?fbclid=IwAR0z3EvrsqivaKNPfrRvf9rrrGfyudlb_KhCjNCQrryAoI0pziYWVziYd_M
#Wuhan #China #Covid19 #Coronavirus #WuhanPneumonia #FangFangDiary
Chinese novelist Fang Fang, the pen name of Wang Fang, was in a funk when she decided to become the unofficial chronicler of life under coronavirus-included lockdown in Wuhan, where the virus was first discovered in December 2019.
Fang Fang criticised local officials’ early mistakes and cover-ups, aspects of the response the Chinese Communist party has since airbrushed out of the official narrative. Her descriptions of chaotic events also elicited sympathy for the people of her city, in a tacit rebuke of rightwing commentators in the US who labelled the disease the “Wuhan virus”. Her posts were translated into English and collected as a book, Wuhan Diary. The April announcement of its publication sparked online abuse as leftists in China accused her of “handing a knife to foreigners” and spreading “distorted values”.
She has stuck to her criticisms of the Wuhan authorities, even as the party intensified efforts to spin its response as an unblemished success.
Source: FT #Dec04
https://www.ft.com/content/a8995095-7379-4e01-8070-2a54d4b47180?fbclid=IwAR0z3EvrsqivaKNPfrRvf9rrrGfyudlb_KhCjNCQrryAoI0pziYWVziYd_M
#Wuhan #China #Covid19 #Coronavirus #WuhanPneumonia #FangFangDiary
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Wuhan lockdown diarist Fang Fang on writing to preserve the truth
Censors tried to erase the novelist’s unvarnished accounts of the Covid-19 pandemic’s frightening early days
#FirstHand #Feb26
HK Gov't Imposes Sudden #Lockdown For the 2nd Time Within 3 Days: 1 Positive Case Out Of 330 People Tested
At around 7pm on Jan 26, 2021, the Hong Kong government enforced a sudden lockdown at No. 9 - 27 Pitt Street and No. 3 Tung On Street in Yau Ma Tei. Police officers cordoned off the block, as medical personnel set up testing counters.
The authorities demanded residents to stay in their homes except when taking the tests for #coronavirus.
At 6am on Jan 27, the authorities announced the end of the operation, after testing 330 people and locating 1 positive case.
Just on Jan 23, 2021, the government imposed a compulsory lockdown in the Jordan district, neighboring Yau Ma Tei, for 48 hours. It was the first time the authorities invoke the chapter 599J of the Regulations on Disease Prevention and Control.
Shun Fung Building had been on the mandatory testing list on Jan 23, meaning that the residents were tested twice within just 3 days.
#PoliceState #599J #YauMaTeiLockdown
HK Gov't Imposes Sudden #Lockdown For the 2nd Time Within 3 Days: 1 Positive Case Out Of 330 People Tested
At around 7pm on Jan 26, 2021, the Hong Kong government enforced a sudden lockdown at No. 9 - 27 Pitt Street and No. 3 Tung On Street in Yau Ma Tei. Police officers cordoned off the block, as medical personnel set up testing counters.
The authorities demanded residents to stay in their homes except when taking the tests for #coronavirus.
At 6am on Jan 27, the authorities announced the end of the operation, after testing 330 people and locating 1 positive case.
Just on Jan 23, 2021, the government imposed a compulsory lockdown in the Jordan district, neighboring Yau Ma Tei, for 48 hours. It was the first time the authorities invoke the chapter 599J of the Regulations on Disease Prevention and Control.
Shun Fung Building had been on the mandatory testing list on Jan 23, meaning that the residents were tested twice within just 3 days.
#PoliceState #599J #YauMaTeiLockdown
#PoliceState #LockDown
Only less than 2% police officers deployed in support of the City’s first district lockdown, far less than officers involved in PR campaign
On January 23, 2021, Hong Kong government willfully locked down four main locations in Yau Ma Tei and Jordan to carry out compulsory COVID19 test. Over 1,000 officers from five enforcement units were involved in this operation.
Based on media reports and further information that Stand News collected directly from HK Police Force, it showed that only 600 officers (1.67%) of the 35,000-strong Police Force were deployed.
This was even less than the officers took part in the production of the Force’s latest advertising video and the least, in proportion to its total staff, among five enforcement units involved in the operation.
All Bureau heads of the five enforcement units visited the lock-down location. The Director of Immigration mentioned that 300 officers were deployed. The Correctional Services Department said 230, while the Fire Services and the Customs & Excise deployed 650 and 350 staff respectively.
Source: Stand News, #Jan25
#Coronavirus #AsiasFinest #DisciplinaryForce #WuhanPneumonia
Only less than 2% police officers deployed in support of the City’s first district lockdown, far less than officers involved in PR campaign
On January 23, 2021, Hong Kong government willfully locked down four main locations in Yau Ma Tei and Jordan to carry out compulsory COVID19 test. Over 1,000 officers from five enforcement units were involved in this operation.
Based on media reports and further information that Stand News collected directly from HK Police Force, it showed that only 600 officers (1.67%) of the 35,000-strong Police Force were deployed.
This was even less than the officers took part in the production of the Force’s latest advertising video and the least, in proportion to its total staff, among five enforcement units involved in the operation.
All Bureau heads of the five enforcement units visited the lock-down location. The Director of Immigration mentioned that 300 officers were deployed. The Correctional Services Department said 230, while the Fire Services and the Customs & Excise deployed 650 and 350 staff respectively.
Source: Stand News, #Jan25
#Coronavirus #AsiasFinest #DisciplinaryForce #WuhanPneumonia
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China wants the United States to be generous and share the coronavirus vaccines worldwide; China’s hypocritical and rascal acts to shift focus on their responsibility of spreading the coronavirus epidemic
//On the weekend after G20 meeting, leaders from each country gave a speech through the internet meeting and mostly discussed the rebound of the epidemic happening around the world. During Xi Jinping’s speech, he talked through his hat as usual and stated that he fully supports vaccine development and for the vaccine to become public assets in the future, so those poor countries could also get the vaccine. He even suggested developing an international health code cell-phone app for healthy people to travel around the world, to speed up the recovery of the global economy.
//Health codes are QR codes app that is currently implementing in Mainland China, storing all personal health data and location information in the mobile phone so that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Government can track one’s location.
//Even if a person is not concerned about personal’s privacy, one should worry about the credibility of China’s virus testing. If the virus testing has a false result, it would lead to many falsely diagnosed patients traveling around the world, repeating the tribulation of China exporting the coronavirus. The world needs to remember in early 2020, China tried to conceal the in-country epidemic; when it could not be hidden anymore, CCP repeatedly emphasized that the virus was similar to flu and condemned those countries that prohibited the entry of Chinese citizens as an act of racialism, resulting in many Chinese patients exported the virus over the world. China is the origin of the coronavirus epidemic.
//Other countries may not do well in controlling the epidemic, but it cannot counteract the responsibility of China creating the epidemic. It is the same as a fireman being unable to control the mountain fire effectively, but ignore the criminal liability of the arsonist who caused the fire.
//If China really cares about poor countries for not getting the vaccines, why don’t China purchase the vaccines for the countries from the United States? The Chinese government had also been telling the world that the vaccines developed in China were very effective and safe, even releasing them before the US. Since the Chinese vaccines are that good, why don’t the China government distribute them to poor countries for free?
//The Chinese pharmaceutical factories had never published their research and testing data on the vaccines.
Full Translation Here: Hong Kong Echo
Source: The Stand News
#China #Coronavirus #Vaccines #Blame #Pressure
China wants the United States to be generous and share the coronavirus vaccines worldwide; China’s hypocritical and rascal acts to shift focus on their responsibility of spreading the coronavirus epidemic
//On the weekend after G20 meeting, leaders from each country gave a speech through the internet meeting and mostly discussed the rebound of the epidemic happening around the world. During Xi Jinping’s speech, he talked through his hat as usual and stated that he fully supports vaccine development and for the vaccine to become public assets in the future, so those poor countries could also get the vaccine. He even suggested developing an international health code cell-phone app for healthy people to travel around the world, to speed up the recovery of the global economy.
//Health codes are QR codes app that is currently implementing in Mainland China, storing all personal health data and location information in the mobile phone so that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Government can track one’s location.
//Even if a person is not concerned about personal’s privacy, one should worry about the credibility of China’s virus testing. If the virus testing has a false result, it would lead to many falsely diagnosed patients traveling around the world, repeating the tribulation of China exporting the coronavirus. The world needs to remember in early 2020, China tried to conceal the in-country epidemic; when it could not be hidden anymore, CCP repeatedly emphasized that the virus was similar to flu and condemned those countries that prohibited the entry of Chinese citizens as an act of racialism, resulting in many Chinese patients exported the virus over the world. China is the origin of the coronavirus epidemic.
//Other countries may not do well in controlling the epidemic, but it cannot counteract the responsibility of China creating the epidemic. It is the same as a fireman being unable to control the mountain fire effectively, but ignore the criminal liability of the arsonist who caused the fire.
//If China really cares about poor countries for not getting the vaccines, why don’t China purchase the vaccines for the countries from the United States? The Chinese government had also been telling the world that the vaccines developed in China were very effective and safe, even releasing them before the US. Since the Chinese vaccines are that good, why don’t the China government distribute them to poor countries for free?
//The Chinese pharmaceutical factories had never published their research and testing data on the vaccines.
Full Translation Here: Hong Kong Echo
Source: The Stand News
#China #Coronavirus #Vaccines #Blame #Pressure
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#FirstHand #Apr23
HK Governmemt Imposes #AmbushLockdown on #SouthHorizons
On April 23, 2021, the Hong Kong government imposes a lockdown on a residential block, namely Yee Lai Court, in South Horizons in Ap Lei Chau.
The police cordoned off the area at around 8:30pm and all residents are ordered to undergo #covid19 testing before 2am.
#PoliceState #Coronavirus
HK Governmemt Imposes #AmbushLockdown on #SouthHorizons
On April 23, 2021, the Hong Kong government imposes a lockdown on a residential block, namely Yee Lai Court, in South Horizons in Ap Lei Chau.
The police cordoned off the area at around 8:30pm and all residents are ordered to undergo #covid19 testing before 2am.
#PoliceState #Coronavirus
#China uses #coronavirus warning app to stifle #dissent
//China's #COVID19 warning app enables health authorities to move quickly against a virus outbreak. But it seems officials also use the app to stop perfectly healthy people from doing what Beijing doesn't want them to do. And the target is dissidents.//
Watch the video:
https://www.dw.com/en/china-uses-coronavirus-warning-app-to-stifle-dissent/av-62501253
Source: DW #Jul17
#HealthCode #MassSurveillance #Beijing #Authoritarianism
//China's #COVID19 warning app enables health authorities to move quickly against a virus outbreak. But it seems officials also use the app to stop perfectly healthy people from doing what Beijing doesn't want them to do. And the target is dissidents.//
Watch the video:
https://www.dw.com/en/china-uses-coronavirus-warning-app-to-stifle-dissent/av-62501253
Source: DW #Jul17
#HealthCode #MassSurveillance #Beijing #Authoritarianism