China reported its highest daily tally of coronavirus infections since the outbreak in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spread to multiple clusters across the country.
The global death toll from Covid-19 is nearing 6 million.
Hong Kong reported 31,008 Coronavirus cases and 153 deaths on Sunday. Although cases of reported infections was less than 40,000 for the second straight day, after exceeding 50,000 three days earlier, officials said the decline could be due to unrestricted rapid testing results and a “weekend effect”.
The global death toll from COVID-19 is approx 6 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg.
Major Developments:
- Virus Tracker: Cases Over 445.8 Million; deaths top 5.9 million
- Vaccine Tracker: Over 10.8 Billion Doses Administered
- Mobile fridges brought to Hong Kong mortuary as death surges
- Two Ways to Avoid China’s Zero Kovid Trap: Raphael and Fazeli
- Major bankers are leaving Hong Kong as Beijing, Covid remake city
- Coronavirus Daily: Vaccines for children among Omicrons
- Bloomberg Opinion’s Matthew Brooker: Signs of Hong Kong’s crisis are growing
- China adds most cases since Wuhan outbreak (9:32 am HK)
China reported its highest daily tally of coronavirus infections since the outbreak in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spreads to multiple clusters across the country.
The nation announced 214 domestic confirmed cases – defined as people with symptoms – and 312 asymptomatic infections on Monday. The total level of 526 for a day is a level not seen in two years and it poses a significant challenge to the country’s firm adherence to a COVID zero strategy.
The Covid Zero policy has isolated the world’s most populous country from the rest of the world as Western nations begin to live with the virus and slowly open up.
Managers expect flexible work cuts (8:01am HK)
More than half of UK managers hope to dial back their pandemic-era adoption of remote working and flexible arrangements once Covid-19 retreats, undermining hopes among employees that many of the changes Will tolerate.
Some 34% of managers and HR professionals believe remote work initiatives will be withdrawn after the pandemic, a survey of more than 750 people showed, even though 66% support the current policies.
Global death toll approx 6 million (5 p.m. NY)
The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 is nearing 6 million, although the actual number is much higher and unknown as infections in Asian countries are less affected by earlier viral waves. The total global deaths were recorded at 5,998,428, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg.
Each of the last million deaths has been punctuated by a coronavirus variant – first Delta, then Omicron.
US Trucker Convoy Circle DC (4:44 PM NY)
A group of truck drivers calling themselves the Freedom Convoy made two noisy laps around the Washington Beltway, a highway that circles the city, to protest vaccination mandates and restrictions adopted to fight the pandemic. For.
Trucks, many of them adorned with American flags, sounded their horns whenever they saw their supporters waving overpasses or other vehicles. According to a report by radio station WTOP, most of the rigs in the convoy traveled in the middle lane and within the prescribed speed limit. It took 30 to 35 minutes to pass it.
According to its website, the People’s Convoy describes itself as a law-abiding citizen. They call for an end to the state of emergency that has led to the imposition of vaccine mandates by some governments and want a congressional hearing to investigate the response to the pandemic.
After circling the highway twice—a journey that’s a little less than 130 miles—most of the trucks headed north toward Hagerstown, Maryland, where they were originally assembled on Friday. It’s not clear what his next move is, though he has said he has no intention of attempting to shut down Washington, the same way Canadian truckers blocked Ottawa for three weeks in February.
The reality of COVID for New Zealand (12am HK)
After keeping the virus at bay for so long, Covid-19 is now ravaging the nation’s population thanks to the highly infectious Omron variant. In a span of two weeks, the number of new cases rose from less than 1,000 in a day to more than 22,000.
Two years after the pandemic began, New Zealanders are finally facing the reality of it.
Hong Kong seeks help from private hospitals (6pm HK)
Hong Kong Officials are liaising with all private hospitals to make room for COVID patients as the city grapples with its worst wave of the virus yet. Health officials said in a press briefing on Sunday that the government is sending more government hospitals, who are being treated for diseases other than Coronavirus, if they are in a stable condition and recovering. So they can vacate the bed in public order. ,
“Reducing pressure from public hospitals hence we are contacting with private hospitals. ” told Larry Lee, chief manager of the hospital authority.
Entire city’s health system and morgue are under pressure from a record outbreak, which has throughout its death rate to one of the highest in the world.
