Category: COVID-19
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Three weeks ago Hong Kong had around 100 cases of the Coronavirus, and only a handful of new cases each day. The trend looked much better than in many other countries (with typically around 33% daily increases) Recently the daily increases have been more dramatic (15% on 18 March, 23% on 20 March), mainly because…
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About 6 weeks in, we are now up to 100 total cases of Coronavirus in Hong Kong. We haven’t experienced any dramatic increases in cases, but neither is there any sign of it going away. The “panic buying” of rice, toilet rolls and cleaning products seems to have passed, and the supermarket shelves are full…
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Hong Kong streets and shopping centres are strangely quiet and traffic is light. Yes, we’ve been here before, but last time (just a couple of months ago) it was the protests whereas now it’s Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Many local people are choosing to spend more time at home (with some employers telling staff not to…
Ordinary Gweilo 