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Explain what went wrong in hong kong. how did it get to this point? >> reporter: in a word, could be summed up as complacency. hong kong has had two years to stockpile testing kits, two years to build isolation centers and quarantine facilities, hong kong has had just under a year ago when the vaccination system was rolled out, just under a year to get certain members of the population, especially the most vulnerable and elderly to be vaccinated and boosted. all of that time and opportunity has been squaundered and that's why we are at this place today where hong kong is literally scrambling f...

We just heard from the health authorities within the last hour, and hong kong today has reported 7,500 new daily cases of covid-19 and 13 new deaths from the virus. mainland chinese authorities have been pledging help. help has arrived in the form of expertise in testing, in treatment, as well as building more quarantine capacity. in fact, right now mainland chinese teams on the ground here in hong kong are constructing two new isolation and treatment centers, one in pen east bay, the corner of hong kong near hong kong disneyland and the other at the cruise terminal. these isolation centers to...

(File photo) MANILA - The National Capital Region (NCR) currently has 6,595 health care workers, all under quarantine because of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infection. Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary and treatment czar Leopoldo Vega said 7.2 percent of the 91,838 health care workers in NCR are in isolation. "So, ang ginagawa ngayon ng mga hospital lalung-lalo na sa mga bigger center ay nag-close sila ng ibang services para ma-redeploy sa mga areas na nangangailangan for Covid ng kanilang mga(What hospitals do now, especially the bigger centers, is they close other servic...

MANILA - A leader of the House of Representatives on Wednesday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to ensure that the ballot design would be fair for party-list contenders in the 2022 national and local elections. Deputy Speaker Bernadette Herrera said the Comelec should not repeat its mistake of printing the party-lists at the back of the ballot in the previous elections, since several voters were not able to vote for the sector because it was printed at the back. "There must not be a repeat of the ballot design that was detrimental to the party-lists in the last elections. The p...

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