Hong Kong health authorities have urged the public to get the latest Covid vaccine as the next wave of the virus is set to arrive. The Centre for Health Protection said on Friday active periods of Covid-19 came in cycles of every six to nine months. More than five months had passed since the last…
Victor clearly recalls the day 10 years ago that changed his life. It was a Sunday, and he had gone to Hong Kong charity Aids Concern, where he volunteers, to have a rapid antibody test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), an infection that attacks the body’s immune system. For weeks, he had been experiencing diarrhoea…
LONDON (Reuters) -Hunger and disease are spreading in war-torn Sudan, with famine already present in several areas, 25 million people acutely food insecure and nearly 100,000 cholera cases recorded since last July, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. Sudan’s conflict between the army and rival Rapid Support Forces has displaced millions and split the…
Hong Kong authorities have strengthened mosquito control measures at a hospital and the neighbourhood where the city’s first imported case of chikungunya fever since 2019 was reported, with residents also taking extra steps. The Housing Authority and the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department stepped up anti-mosquito efforts at Kwun Tong’s On Tat Estate and United…
A senior Chinese official has visited the epicentre of the country’s Chikungunya fever outbreak, as the number of cases of the mosquito-borne virus nears 5,000. Chinese Vice-Premier Liu Guozhong visited the southern city of Foshan in Guangdong province, urging the city to “strictly implement port health quarantine measures”, according to state news agency Xinhua on…
Hong Kong recorded 1,138 suicides last year, the highest number since 2003, with the rate for men aged 30 to 49 jumping sharply in a 12-month period, an NGO said on Saturday. The Samaritan Befrienders Hong Kong released the findings of its analysis of the Coroner’s Court’s data, which showed a 4 per cent rise…
This article was first published on July 12, 2015. Alert raised over tap water as more lead samples found by Emily Tsang Fears are growing over the safety of water supplied to Hong Kong’s public housing after a contamination scare spread on Saturday (July 11, 2015) in a development which a top government official has…
A former UN secretary general has called for an overhaul of the United Nations to better confront global challenges as “some powerful nations” seek to undermine the institution. Ban Ki-moon, who was secretary general of the United Nations from 2007 to 2016, said in Hong Kong on Tuesday that the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza…