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Millennial stress: Hong Kong beauty queen hid in hotel, bingeing on junk food

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‘Time to hand over Covid responsibility and power to Hongkongers’

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Hong Kong to drop on-arrival Covid PCR tests, vaccine pass from Thursday

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong will drop almost all Covid-19 measures starting from Thursday, including mandatory polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for arrivals, its vaccine pass scheme and quarantine requirements for close contacts, following similar action by mainland China. In a related development, the Post learned on Wednesday that Hong Kong is set to reopen its border...

Cool to be fit: China’s Gen Zs discover health’s benefits amid Covid

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No shift to quarantine centres for Hong Kong care home patients’ close contacts

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Singapore doctors expect more PCR testing as China eases Covid measures

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Hong Kong’s ‘0+0’ Covid switch long-awaited, but how soon can city bounce back?

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US drug giant Moderna is in Hong Kong. What are its plans?

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Hong Kong further eases isolation rules but other Covid measures stay in place

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong has further eased its quarantine and isolation measures following mainland China’s major shift away from its zero-Covid policy, but a continuing surge in daily infections is keeping the city from lifting social-distancing rules over the coming holiday season. From Friday, residents and arrivals infected with Covid-19 will be allowed to leave...

400 per cent jump in number of Hongkongers taking fourth Covid-19 jab

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As Beijing eases Covid-19 rules, experts say Hong Kong should follow suit

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‘It’s like being in prison’: Hongkongers unfit for Covid jabs warn of isolation

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Covid nasal vaccine co-developed by Hong Kong gets go-ahead in mainland China

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Should Hongkongers get bivalent vaccine? Here is all you need to make a choice

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Why China’s lockdown protests pose an unprecedented challenge to Beijing

While local protests in China over environmental, labour and land disputes are not uncommon, the rare wave of blank-paper protests that spilled across China’s wealthiest cities – all targeting President Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy – represents a challenge of the type the country’s leaders have not faced for decades. The protests erupted last weekend after a fire at a residential block in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, claimed 10 lives. University students and angry citizens staged vigils on...

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