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Bus transport sector and airline industry recruiting people to join unions and planning strikes. They are likely the next sectors to take industrial action, after healthcare sector. All are calling for a full border closure to contain #coronavirus epidemic.
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WeChat is many apps in one - messaging, videocalls, cashless payment, reading the news, calling taxi, etc. It’s very convenient, but it also means once it’s suspended, you immediately lose access to all of that, with disastrous consequences esp at a time like this. twitter.com/lqq91926/statu…
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Volunteers...? How about the Hong Kong police who have received HK1.2 billion overtime pay? twitter.com/aaronMCN/statu…
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And whom do we sue if we are affected by coronavirus because #HongKong govt failed to close the border? twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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Association of Hong Kong Nursing Staff held urgent meeting and now speaking to press about basic medical supplies that should be provided:
- patients: two surgical masks each day + alcohol rub
- nurses: four surgical masks each day + personal protective equipment (PPE)
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Yellow cafe Jiegenge offers free bleach outside their restaurant for citizens, provided that they bring their own containers. Disinfectant products’re flying off shelves in #HongKong amid #coronavirus scare.
Photo by Jimmy Lam @USPhongkong
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Actually, skip the protective supplies because health authorities aren’t even providing sufficient surgical masks, not to mention other PPE. A patient assistant told me to save on masks, they use only one for the whole day, whereas normally, they would use 2~3. Some are... twitter.com/nya_x_x202071/…
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even told to BYOM: Bring Your Own Masks and that hospitals cannot provide them with any. As this poster by HA Employees Alliance asks, “have you seen police buy their own guns for work?”
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My first story for @washingtonpost is on #HongKong #ProtestArt, which took a new turn amid #coronavirus epidemic. Themes and topics might have changed, but the target remains the same, HK leaders - with #CarrieLam as an all time favorite.
washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
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Cardiologist Alfred Wong Yam-Hong shaved his head and joined the dirty team voluntarily. He criticised Hospital Authority’s policies, including:
- lack of washout period for dirty team staff
- provide surgical gowns instead of hazmat for isolation wards thestandnews.com/politics/%E8%8…
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And on Valentine’s Day, @appledaily_hk ran this story about a protester couple who’re separated by an ocean after the guy left #HongKong on a one-way ticket to avoid being jailed for rioting. While the girl heads to protest frontline alone...hk.appledaily.com/lifestyle/2020…
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In Sichuan, a woman who could not get her hands on masks or hazmat suit, wore a giraffe costume to get her elderly parents' medicine from the hospital. Experts are advising against this...but Im in love with the suit.
ettoday.net/news/20200215/…
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A 24-year-old, who travelled from Wuhan to Guangzhou last month, started coughing six days after her 15-day quarantine ended and tested positive for #coronavirus yesterday - yet another case where patients developed symptoms after 14-day incubation period. hk.news.appledaily.com/china/20200217…
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0:58: Police chief Chris Tang literally said he doesn’t know how to be a police officer and learnt it from watching Jackie Chan, Fong Chung-san movies. That explains a lot. twitter.com/galileocheng/s…
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This came after a study by leading epidemiologist Zhong Nan-Shan shows incubation period could be as long as 24 days. It begs questions about whether putting ppl under 14-day quarantine is effective in screening potential patients.
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Ambulance officers in #HongKong are under Fire Services Department, which was allocated ZERO protective suit (while police got 43,615). An officer speaking to Ming Pao on how they are exposed to potential infections, yet have to reuse masks. mpweekly.com/culture/%E6%95…
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Local photographer Ko Chung Ming’s entry to Sony World Photography Awards, titled Wounds of HongKong, is taken down from the site by World Photography Organisation, which cited concern raised abt sensitive nature of the images and ongoing review.
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Ko Chung Ming took photos of those wounded during the protests, including a first aider who suffered third degree burns after a tear gas canister hit him in the back, needed a 4-hour graft and daily dressing, and was subsequently disowned by his family who supports the government
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Mask heist in Japan. 6000 masks stolen from the Red Cross Kobe Hospital. japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/1…
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Citizen News spoke to a postman, who took up extra shifts to deliver parcels - most of them masks - to citizens after postal service resumed on Monday. Some wept when they received the parcels. One immediately opened it and gave some masks to the postman. hkcnews.com/article/27028/…
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Not your regular souvenir. #HongKong tycoon Li Ka-shing, who just returned from New Zealand, brought back 5,115 set of protective coveralls, to be donated to medical staff at hospitals.
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Both @appledaily_hk and @StandNewsHK report that a senior police officer, member of the riot squad, tested positive for coronavirus this evening. An ambulance was sent to pick him up from his flat at the disciplined service quarters in Yau Tong.
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Masks, glasses are banned at this church cult. Followers attend even when they’re sick, sit tightly together during services, are taught not to be afraid of illness.
Now 150 members test positive for #coronavirus and authorities can’t locate the rest.
nytimes.com/2020/02/21/wor…
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“Thanks to my hard work, the number of infection remains low.”
“Um, Chief Executive, this shows your popularity rating...”
Work by VA Wong Sir.
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Photos by photographer 蘇文傑 from AM730 of riot police making arrests and pepper spraying press members at a protest against virus clinic plans in Tai Po today.
Journalist based in Hong Kong. Formerly @VICEWorldNews, @SCMPNews. Words in @WPReview, @latimes and @AJEnglish
Contact: rachel_cheung1@protonmail.com