The new sanctions will impose additional restrictions on financial institutions and state-owned enterprises in Russia and target Russian government officials and their families, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday. Ukraine says two civilians killed at aid distribution point, east under heavy fire Russian artillery fire killed at least two people and wounded five at a humanitarian aid distribution point on Wednesday as Moscow's forces bombarded towns and cities in eastern Ukraine, local officials said.
Hong Kongers yesterday stripped shop shelves bare as panic buying set in following mixed messaging from the government over whether it plans a China-style hard lockdown this month.
Uncertainty over COVID-19 rules has sent the territory’s residents flocking to supermarkets, chemists and vegetable stores to stock up, leaving shelves empty across the territory.
Photographs circulating on social media showed people had trouble finding a variety of items, including meat, vegetables, frozen foods, noodles, paracetamol and COVID-19 testing kits.
“We are like ants going home, grabbing a bit at one spot at a time,” a woman, who gave her surname Wu, said in
Hong Kong is in “all-out combat” to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases, the territory’s number-two official said yesterday, with the ramping up of community isolation and treatment units helped by mainland Chinese construction teams.
Scenes of people lying outside public hospitals in rainy and chilly weather have shocked many in the global financial hub, leading to an apology from authorities. Officials have now organized facilities to shelter patients amid a drop in temperatures as healthcare facilities are overwhelmed.
Officials reported 6,067 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, a day after the government announced that the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal would be turned into
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam (林鄭月娥) yesterday said that she would not impose a mainland China-style hard lockdown as the territory faces its worst COVID-19 outbreak to date, even as she vowed no switch to living with the coronavirus.
The comments came as hospitals began to buckle under the strain of rising infections, with at least two medical facilities placing patients in beds outside their entrances.
No place in the world has managed to return to zero COVID-19 cases after such an outbreak except China, which has imposed citywide lockdowns and mass stay-at-home orders when even a handful of cases are