The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) reported more than 3,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and another 7,600 cases with positive tests on Friday, pushing the total number of infections in the city to 50,000, which is approaching the accumulated confirmed cases in Wuhan - the first Chinese city to experience a coronavirus outbreak - which led to the postponement of the Chief Executive Election, and is estimated to be put under control after three months.
As the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics marched into its 10th day, it was the first day where no confirmed positive COVID-19 case had been notified within the closed loop management of the Games, and the event has reported no cluster infection so far. China s well-orchestrated COVID-19 prevention policies have not only staved off major infections within the closed loop which is hosting more than 15,000 people from all over the world, but have also won kudos from a wide range of participants, who hailed the loop as the
Under the strain of the epidemic, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is urgently seeking help from the mainland, which experts said could provide support to Hong Kong in expanding nucleic acid testing and building fangcang makeshift hospitals to rapidly screen out infected cases and quarantine them, which is the most efficient way to curb transmissions.
The world has been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic for two years, and the initial fear of the unknown virus has now morphed into yearning for a return to normalcy. That is why The Lancet paper indicating that the end of the pandemic is near picked up steam and got scientists into a heated debate about .
The world has been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic for two years, and the initial fear of the unknown virus has now morphed into yearning for a return to normalcy. That is why The Lancet paper indicating that the end of the pandemic is near picked and got scientists into a heated debate about the possibility of China ending the epidemic this year.