JMSC6041 Health and climate change reporting
Some wish the pandemic effect lasts longer
(Constance yao, Shenzhen)-Covid-19 has pushed some business to greater heights in China. “I have never been this busy, and the daily queue outside our boutique doesn’t seem to end”, said Nina, a sales assistant at a Hermes store in one Chinese city. Nina is only...
Waiving intellectual property rights might be a key to boost global vaccine production
(Constance Yao, Shenzhen) The World Health Organization Director-General has urged manufacturers to ramp up vaccines production despite barriers such as export bans, shortages of raw materials, and Intellectual Property (IP) rights transfers. WHO Director General Dr...
Taiwan receives first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca
The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Taiwan on Wednesday (March 3) morning, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said, marking the start of the nation's immunization campaign. About 117,000 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines were delivered by Korean Air to...
WHO highlights urgent need to get vaccines to poor countries
A further 11 million doses of vaccine will be delivered to 15 countries this week to low-income countries through the COVAX system and 237 million doses will be allocated to 142 countries by the end of May, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) press...
‘Our Time Is Cheap’: Small Restaurant Owners Crushed by Covid-19
[ Hong-Kee Noddles (photo: Zixu Wang)] Candy Fung’s small restaurant received around 2,000 HKD increase in turnover, a relief after the Hong Kong government eased the tough social-distancing rules on February 18 and extended the 6 p.m. dine-in restriction to 10 p.m....
Expert Panel Says Death of Man Who Received Sinovac Shot Unrelated to Vaccine
By: Katherine Cheng 3 March 2021 An expert committee said on Wednesday evening that the death of a a 63-year-old man after receiving his first Sinovac shot in Hong Kong was not a result of the vaccine, but rather due to chronic disease. The panel of experts identified...
