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COVID19 Quarantine Center in Hong Kong, a Torture to Patients: "No One would Remember Us"

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Source: Facebook; Channel C HK; #Feb23

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COVID19 Quarantine Center in Hong Kong, a Torture to Patients: "No One would Remember Us"

A video of a distraught woman inside Hong Kong's COVID-19 quarantine center has gone viral on social media on Feb 22.

The video shows the woman in her flip flops at Penny's Bay, Hong Kong's main quarantine facility, breaking down in tears and yelling in desperation as she frantically looked for a way out.

Several staff members, clad in protective gear, tried unsuccessfully to calm her down and persuade her to return to her room. She eventually lashed out and kicked at a staff member who was apparently trying to approach her.

Online media Channel C interviewed another patient, Ms. P, who is also undergoing quarantine in the Penny’s Bay Center. Ms. P said that she totally understood the woman’s desperation, adding that she was also feeling very depressed during her stay.

In fact, distressed patients crying, shouting, yelling in their rooms or along the walkways are a daily occurrence in the center, she said.

A man even attempted suicide by drinking a bottle of disinfectant, Ms. P added.

“The worst thing here is you're easily forgotten,” Ms. P said. When she was admitted into the facility, she made tens of phone calls and waited for 4 days before her initial test bottle was delivered. No one came back to pick it up until she made another round of phone calls, until she finally reached medical staff.

When her quarantine period ended on Feb 19, the facility did not arrange for her to leave, and she spent another 3 days on the phone trying to contact staff - again, receiving no reply. She was elated when staff finally notified her on Feb 21 that she could leave.

However, just before she boarded the bus, she was turned away because she was not given a doctor's note. She watched all the buses leave before being sent back to her room.

"We were all very scared," she said on the interview, her voice breaking, "Once we're back in our rooms, no one would remember us."

However, she was sympathetic to the medical staff and other supporting staff members on the site. “They are suffering just like us. The staff member who came to deliver my documents was soaked in the rain.”

Ms. P questioned the purpose of putting Hong Kong people in quarantine centers where they are not properly taken care of.

She stressed that the costs and suffering inflicted upon so many citizens grossly outweigh any foreseeable benefits.

Source: Facebook; Channel C HK; #Feb23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42SwTQPrtF8

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Hong Kong invokes emergency powers to allow in China medics Without Local Certification

Hong Kong government invoked emergency powers on February 24 to allow doctors and nurses from China to practice in Hong Kong, citing its struggle against a coronavirus outbreak that is spiraling out of control.

Chief Secretary John Lee will be empowered to allow exemptions to existing rules governing overseas medics.

Prior to this, Chinese mainland medics had not been allowed to practice in Hong Kong without passing local exams and licensing regulations.

The emergency powers “exempt certain persons or projects from all relevant statutory requirements” to operate “so as to increase Hong Kong’s epidemic control capacity for containing the fifth wave within a short period of time,” the statement said.

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Sources: Inmediahk, HKFP; #Feb24
https://bit.ly/3v9iqEN

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After attending a controversial birthday party, Dr Chu Wai Sing, who failed to use the LeaveHomeSafe app, made an astonishing statement on a radio company in their interview.

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Sean Penn has the courage Western leaders lack : Ukrainian Government lauds

American actor, #SeanPenn has been filming a war documentary about the escalating tension in Ukraine since November 2021.

On February 24, he visited the Ukrainian Government's offices and spoke with military leaders.

Penn is being lauded by the Ukrainian Government, which said he has the courage 'Western leaders lack'.

Source: 100Most, Daily Mail; #Feb25
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10548211/Actor-Sean-Penn-Ukraine-film-war-documentary.html

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Hongkongers are Leaving Faster than Ever as Anti-Pandemic Measures Strangle City Life

#Emigration #WuhanPneumonia #MandatoryCOVIDTesting

Sources: Oriental Daily, Lee Hung Yin Facebook

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Hongkongers are Leaving Faster than Ever as Anti-Pandemic Measures Strangle City Life

Hong Kong's current wave of emigration is showing signs of accelerating as its authorities further tightens its anti-pandemic policies, leaving its streets empty and businesses shuttered.

An eerie quiet across malls, metro and streets as Covid grips Hong Kong
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/32299?single

According to official numbers, there has been 25,300 Hong Kong residents departing the city on the week ending Feb 20, an increase of 22% from the previous week, reaching nearly 3,000 on Feb 13. These numbers are a new high since the government began its stringent quarantine and social distancing measures in response to the latest pandemic outbreak.

Among the departures, 72% left via the airport, while the remaining headed for mainland China via the two checkpoints that are still open at reduced capacity.

While the departure numbers do not distinguish between those planning to return from those leaving for good, Hong Kong's current 21-day quarantine upon entry certainly discourages traveling for vacation.

Commentator Lee Hung Yin noted that the numbers are particularly high on Sundays, a day on which there is a direct flight to London in the early morning. This flight might be more favorable for those leaving the city, as it allows more time for farewells with friends and relatives.

Not only does the wave of emigration signify a loss of talents, the departing Hongkongers are also taking their savings and capital with them.

According to Oriental Daily, Hong Kong has seen 48 Billion USD leaving the city in the year 2021. A report from Daiwa Capital Markets estimates a further 100 Billion USD leaving the city in the next 24 months, the majority of it happening in 2022.

Source:
Oriental Daily
https://orientaldaily.on.cc/content/%E7%94%A2%E7%B6%93/odn-20220222-0222_00202_004/%E4%B8%8A%E5%91%A82-5%E8%90%AC%E4%BA%BA%E9%9B%A2%E5%A2%83-%E7%96%AB%E4%B8%8B%E6%96%B0%E9%AB%98
Lee Hung Yin Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/100052120232558/posts/50283068813093

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HK Cheif Executive refuses to wear face covering in press briefing while tightening COVID control measures

In a press briefing on mid-February, Hong Kong Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, insisted on not wearing a #mask during her press conference.

When reporters again asked why she wasn't wearing a face covering, she taunted that reporters should let go of this matter, and focus on COVID-control measures.

On another press conference last month, Lam had explained that she had gone mask-less because "people need to understand and feel my feeling".

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Source: Inmediahk; #Feb15
https://bit.ly/3szjFu0

Sculptor of dismantled Tiananmen statue says damage symbolic of Hong Kong struggle

The sculptor of a statue commemorating the victims of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown said on Friday that its removal from a Hong Kong university was "brutal" but any damage would be symbolic of recent changes in the city under Chinese rule.

The eight-metre (26-foot) sculpture of anguished human torsos was one of the few remaining public memorials in the former British colony to remember the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters - a taboo topic in mainland China, where it cannot be publicly commemorated.

Source: Reuters #Dec25

https://reut.rs/32ApwFS

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Ukrainian women vow to protect their soil the same way as men

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Source: Inmediahk; #Feb25

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Ukrainian women vow to protect their soil the same way as men

The #RussianMilitary continued to push forward towards #Kyiv on the third day of the invasion. The #Ukrainian President #VolodymyrZelenskiy anticipated that they would be facing the toughest night ever.

Staying in Kyiv, the Ukrainian Congresswoman #KiraRudik posted a photo of her holding a rifle on #Twitter, saying that Ukrainian women ‘will protect our soil the same way as our men’.

She told CNN she would not leave Kyiv, for it is their city and their country.

The Ukrainian #government distributed weapons to citizens as a part of defending the Russian military.

The government also encouraged their people to prepare gasoline bombs.

CNN interviewed the ex-Ukrainian President #PetroPoroshenko, a current-militia, who accused Russian President #VladimirPutin ‘crazy’, and ‘entering Ukraine just for killing’.

He added that ‘Putin could never take over Ukraine’.

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Source: inmediahk; #Feb25
https://bit.ly/3HmwJIz

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Covid-positive domestic worker, baby left to wait overnight outside Hong Kong hospital

//A domestic worker and her three-month-old baby waited overnight outside a hospital after testing positive for Covid-19, the latest incident to expose the plight of Hong Kong’s migrant workers amid the growing outbreak.//

//The woman, who goes by the pseudonym Anika, had developed a fever and a cough. Her infant was also feeling unwell.

But the hospital told them they could not wait inside, ... Anika and her three-month-old ended up spending the night outside the hospital, where she slept on a chair in a covered area.

“There were also other preliminary-positive patients there,” Antonio-Santoyo said. “Maybe the hospital did not consider that it was cold.”//

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https://hongkongfp.com/2022/02/24/covid-positive-domestic-worker-baby-left-to-wait-overnight-outside-hong-kong-hospital/

Winter Olympic Athletes Were Surprisingly Reluctant to Speak

Source: RFI #Feb11

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Winter Olympic Athletes Were Surprisingly Reluctant to Speak

German luger Natalie Geisenberger, who was critical of China, when asked about her view on China's human rights issues a day after earning a gold medal, said peaking out was a matter of timing. "You have to be careful when you say what and where you say it", she said.

To her self-censorship, some netizens said it is unbearable

What China is trying to show the world through this Olympics? Alain Frachon, a French columnist for Le Monde, believes that "President Xi Jinping's China has proven that it is imposing its standards of civil liberties - on Chinese nationals and foreigners. In the ideological battle, the West is not on the podium."

Advertisers and multinational enterprises have been warned that no representatives of theirs can publicly speak out on Xinjiang or Hong Kong's human rights issues, not even in a few words tweets, or they will face heavy retaliation.

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Source: RFI #Feb11

https://www.rfi.fr/tw/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B/20220211-%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E5%86%AC%E5%A5%A7%E6%9C%83%E5%B0%81%E5%98%B4%E7%AD%96%E7%95%A5%E5%A5%8F%E6%95%88?ref=fb_i

Dear friends,

We are now moving to another channel for Guardians of Hong Kong (GoHK): https://t.me/BeWaterHK

The current and the new channel will update at the same time for at least 3 months to see the situation.

Guardians of Hong Kong

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Ukrainian soldier sacrificed himself to slow Russian Invasion

In an encounter with #Russian military force in #Crimea, the Ukrainians had to destroy a mined bridge in order to prevent some Russian forces from advancing out of Crimea.

Volunteered in this mission, Vitaly Skakun Volodymyrovych, a member of the Ukrainian Marine Corps went alone and had successfully blown up the bridge.

Unfortunately he did not have time to flee the scene, thus sacrificed in the bombing.

His last communication with his task force was ‘Blowing up the bridge’, followed by the bombing, and his tragic perish.

His heroic act had successfully stopped the Russian tanks from moving forward, as well as slowed down their invasion, buying the Ukrainian military more time to plan and defend Russian attacks.

The Ukrainian military reiterated at the end of their announcement that, ‘We will fight as long as we are alive!’

Source: Whatsnewsmedia, #Feb25
http://whatsnewsmedia.com/7746/17/29/48