#Firsthand #Feb9
Police-Civilian Clash on Sunday: Crowds Shout "Five Demands, Not One Less"

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Residents in Fotan shouting: "Five Demands, Not One Less", "'Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of our Times", "Eliminate Dirty Cops' Family", "Give Chun Yeung (residential area used for quarantine) Back!"

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Police requested civilians to evacuate immediately and blocked them from walking forward. Residents from Fotan are furious as police requested civilians to show their residential ID. The police also warned that force will be used if others does not leave the scene.

Civilians continue to chant "Give Chun Yeung Back to Us!"

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Civilians Describe Police as State Machine

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Residents expressed their discontent towards the riot police and said: "No one will pity your family even if they got infected by Wuhan Pneumomia. You are stupid if you still work for Carrie Lam. How about we use the Disciplined Service Quarters for Quarantine?"

Riot police were facing off against civilians at the scene.

#PoliceBrutality

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At the intersection of Shan Mei Street and Sui Wo Road

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Police Indiscriminately round up all civilians at the scene

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Indiscriminate round-up of the citizen protestors
Indiscriminate round-up of the citizen protestors led to their being lumped together by the press, as the riot police demanded them to walk onto car roads. Some citizens entered into an argument when a protestor was dragged to the other side of the road by a middle-aged man. “You should respect yourself!” the man shouted, to which the protestors replied, “You are the one disgracing yourself!”

Meanwhile, the police used torches with strong beams on the crowds. Despite the peacefulness and lawfulness of the march, the riot police demanded them to leave and announced they would carry out random stop-and-search on them.

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Police in a hoarse voice remind citizens to check on their Facebook page

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The police suddenly turned on the microphone, causing discordance on the streets. They shouted, sounding hoarse, that they were filming live from Facebook, that all their faces were being taken pictures of, and threatened arrests to every one of them. Some journalists said they noticed their equipment wasn’t in place and reminded citizens to check on their Facebook page.

#Remembrance
4th Anniversary of the Fishball Revolution

The world belongs to all
But it’s yours, who dwells the present, after all.

Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times.
Lest we forget February 9,
the 4th anniversary of the Fishball Revolution.

Source: Chapman To's Facebook #Feb9

Editor's note:
The Fishball Revolution is a major social movement after the 2014 Umbrella Revolution. Traditionally, the Chinese New Year holidays attracts many unlicensed hawkers to sell street foods and other products at Mong Kok, in places like Sai Yeung Choi Street and Kweilin Street, which is a crucial element of Hong Kong culture. With the pro-establishment camp controlled district council passing motions of zero tolerance towards hawkers and the FEHD conducting surprise inspections and confiscations, against convention and demands from grassroots organizations, the joyous scene turned into an anti-government protest, as an act of defiance towards the government’s philistinism to local culture.

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New Preventive Measures Prone to Loopholes, Due to Overreliance on Self-Imposed Measures

The effectiveness of the “14-day compulsory quarantine” in curbing transmission of the deadly Coronavirus in Hong Kong has been severely questioned, as the only requirements for people in quarantines are to wear a surgical mask when going out; to pay attention to body temperature and to answer random interview phone calls. There are no mention of staying in isolation for 14 days, nor "mandatory quarantine" or "quarantine" at all.

The Director of the Centre for Infections and Infectious Diseases of the University of Hong Kong, Dr Ho Pak-leung, pointed out that the latest preventive measures announced by Carrie Lam administration were falling far behind many other international cities. The compulsory quarantine was a self-imposed measure and relied heavily on travelers’ self-discipline. Besides, penalties were vague and lenient, which could hardly deter those who willfully hide their travel history and coronavirus-related medical conditions.

Sources: Apple Daily, Facebook
http://bit.ly/2vZaiu0

#Feb9 #ChinesePneumonia #GlobalOutbreak

#DailyUpdates #Feb9

2019-nCoV Updates (9/2):

⁃ The death toll from the novel coronavirus has reached a record high. The number of infected in mainland China is 37,198 with over 2,000 new infections confirmed in mainland China overnight.

⁃ As of today, 813 people have died from the virus, exceeding the number of people killed by the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak of 2003

⁃ A study published Friday in the medical journal JAMA found that 41% of the first 138 patients diagnosed at one hospital in Wuhan, China, were presumed to be infected in that hospital. Nearly half of the initial infections in this hospital appear to have been spread within the hospital itself — nosocomial transmission.

⁃ Hong Kong health officials announced today that there have been no confirmed cases of coronavirus found on board the World Dream cruise ship, which had been under quarantine in Hong Kong for days, and the passengers are free to leave.

⁃ In the single-biggest outbreak outside of mainland China, 70 cases have now been confirmed on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship off the coast of Yokohama. In a message to the more than 400 US citizens who are on board the ship, the US embassy in Tokyo sent around a missive that they were carefully monitoring the situation.

⁃ Three new cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in Singapore on Sunday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Singapore to 43, according to a statement released by Singapore’s Health Ministry.

⁃ A group of 34 Brazilian nationals arrived in Brazil’s western state of Goias on Sunday after being transported on military planes from Wuhan, China, according to Brazil’s Health Regulatory Agency ANVISA.

⁃ 20 German citizens and their family members landed in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday after being repatriated from Wuhan, China, via the United Kingdom, the German Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

⁃ A fourth case of the Wuhan coronavirus has been confirmed in the United Kingdom, the country's chief medical adviser said in a statement on Sunday.

⁃ The doctor who tried to raise the alarm about the coronavirus in Wuhan, Li Wenliang, will be "remembered as a hero," China's Ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming said Sunday, as Chinese authorities face fierce criticism on social media for their treatment of Li.

⁃ Spain’s National Center for Microbiology has confirmed the country’s second case of Wuhan coronavirus. The person is one of four who had been in contact with an infected French national.

⁃ Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, delivered a “message of sympathy from the Queen” to President Xi Jinping and the Chinese people over the coronavirus outbreak

⁃ 5 new cases were confirmed in France, they are all British citizens. France rose the travel alert to China.

- Ships arriving from China won’t be able to dock in Queensland for 14 days from their departure in a move designed to combat the spread of the coronavirus

⁃ WHO expert team would be heading to China earliest on 10th Feb

Source : CNN, Now News, The Australian

#Coronavirus #WARS