HONG KONG - Officials are now reviewing whether to make Covid-19 vaccination compulsory for foreign domestic helpers after the move, announced last Friday (April 30), was widely criticised.
The controversial policy was announced after tests showed that a 39-year-old helper from the Philippines had the more infectious South African variant of the coronavirus, N501Y.
She became the second helper to be infected with the variant but the first in which the source of infection was unknown. The earlier patient was also asymptomatic.
The latest case led officials to send about 400 households from a Tung Chung residential block called the Caribbean Coast into quarantine for three weeks.
China Foreign Minister and Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary during a meet in Manila (FILE)
Beijing:
China urged the Philippines on Tuesday to observe basic etiquette and eschew megaphone diplomacy after the southeast Asian nation s foreign minister used an expletive-laced Twitter message to demand that China s vessels leave disputed waters.
The comments by Teodoro Locsin, known for occasional blunt remarks, follow Manila s protests over what it calls the illegal presence of hundreds of Chinese boats inside the Philippines 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
In a statement, China s foreign ministry urged the Philippines to respect the nation s sovereignty and jurisdiction and stop taking actions that complicate the situation.
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MANILA: The Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary yesterday demanded in an expletive-laced message on Twitter that China s vessels get out of the disputed South China Sea. China, my friend, how politely can I put it? Let me see… O… GET THE F OUT, Mr Teodoro Locsin said in a tweet on his personal account. What are you doing to our friendship? You. Not us. We re trying. You. You re like an ugly oaf forcing your attentions on a handsome guy who wants to be a friend…
Mr Locsin s comments come in the wake of Manila s protests against the illegal presence of hundreds of Chinese boats inside the Philippines 322km exclusive economic zone.
Xi Jinping adopts Mao Zedong title helmsman, claims ultimate authority Follow Us
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By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Monday, May 3, 2021
Chinese President and Communist Party General-Secretary Xi Jinping continues to consolidate power and has reached new status, adopting the title “helmsman,” a descriptor not used since Mao Zedong and denoting ultimate authority, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
Army Lt. Gen. Scott D. Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said Mr. Xi’s increased power will fuel the Chinese military’s drive to create forces more powerful than those of the United States in the coming years.