Hong Kong police yesterday detained 47 democracy advocates on charges of conspiracy to commit subversion under the territory’s National Security Law, in the largest mass charge against the semi-autonomous Chinese territory’s opposition camp since the law came into effect in June last year.
The former lawmakers and democracy advocates had been previously arrested in a sweeping police operation in January, but were released.
They have been detained again and would appear in court today, police said in a statement.
They allegedly contravened the National Security Law, which was imposed by Beijing for participating in unofficial election primaries for Hong Kong’s legislature last
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 – Malaysia is set to receive China’s Sinovac vaccine for Covid-19 on Saturday, the second brand of vaccine within a span of one week, after welcoming the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, thus further strengthening the country’s economic recovery path.
The Sinovac vaccine, called CoronaVac, was secured through a supply agreement involving 14 million doses inked between Pharmaniaga Bhd and Chinese pharmaceutical company, Sinovac Life Sciences Co Ltd.
After sitting on the sidelines as the US and Europe plowed headlong into vaccinating against COVID-19, the part of the world that contained the virus most successfully is finally starting to administer shots.
Hong Kong began its program on Monday, with Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam (林鄭月娥) getting Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech Ltd’s (科興生物) vaccine.
Japan, Australia and New Zealand have started vaccinating priority groups with shots from Pfizer Inc-BioNTech SE and AstraZeneca PLC.
Malaysia started its drive on Wednesday, while South Korea begins today and Thailand is preparing to start in a few days.
With COVID-19 mostly contained throughout much of Asia, governments
Photo of Presidential Spokesperson Harry L. Roque Jr. in a virtual press briefing held today
QUEZON CITY, Feb. 25 (PIA) Presidential Spokesperson Secertary Harry L. Roque Jr. announced today that 600 million doses of sinovac vaccine from China are expected to arrive on Sunday, February 28.
According to Roque, hospitals in the country are well prepared including the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) for the arrival of the said vaccine.
In addition, Sec. Roque reiterates that there is no reason to be afraid for the Sinovac vaccine. He said many world leaders have been vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine among them are the Turkey President Tayyip Erdogan, Hongkong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and Indonesia President Joko Widodo.