July 10, 2021
The calls came as Singapore s Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said the two sides are still trying to revive the agreement.
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HONG KONG - Hong Kong lawmakers on Friday (July 9) urged the government to give up plans for a travel bubble with Singapore, given the Republic s strategy shift towards learning to live with Covid-19, local media reported.
At a Legislative Council meeting, lawmakers said Hong Kong must hold onto its goal of maintaining zero local Covid-19 infections, so that travel between the territory and the mainland can resume as soon as possible, public broadcaster RTHK reported.
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Medical staff transfer a patient suspected as a Covid-19 case at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong’s plans to let non-locally trained doctors practise in the city to tackle a shortfall of medical staff in the public sector moved forward on Tuesday (May 18), with the bill to be read in the legislature on June 2.
Health Secretary Sophia Chan said Hong Kong faces a serious shortage of doctors compared with international standards, and the crunch was expected to severely deteriorate in the medium term. The per capita doctor ratio is two doctors per 1,000 people, compared with other economies.we are lagging far behind, Chan told a news conference.