2021/04/14 14:21 Chinese national flag (right) and Hong Kong flag flutter at Legislative Council in Hong Kong on April 13, 2021. Chinese national flag (right) and Hong Kong flag flutter at Legislative Council in Hong Kong on April 13, 2021. (AP photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A total of 129 civil servants in Hong Kong now face “forced retirement” for failing to sign a document swearing allegiance to the city s government following the implementation of the sweeping national security law last year. The Hong Kong Civil Service Bureau (CSB) in January issued a notice asking the city’s 175,000 public officials to sign a document within four weeks. They are “obliged to uphold the Basic Law, bear allegiance to the government, and be dedicated in their duties,” the CSB said in a statement.
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Eye of the storm
The United Kingdom registers a record 53,135 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, as the government comes under pressure to introduce tighter restrictions, including delaying the return to school.
Health chiefs warn that England is “back in the eye” of the coronavirus storm, with as many patients in the hospital as during the initial peak in April, and the new strain of the virus appearing to be behind the recent upsurge in cases.
Eye of the storm
The United Kingdom registers a record 53,135 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, as the government comes under pressure to introduce tighter restrictions, including delaying the return to school.
Health chiefs warn that England is “back in the eye” of the coronavirus storm, with as many patients in the hospital as during the initial peak in April, and the new strain of the virus appearing to be behind the recent upsurge in cases.
‘High’ risk new strains
The Stockholm-based European Centre Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) says that the risk is “high” that newly discovered virus variants causing Covid-19 could cause more deaths due to “increased transmissibility”.
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