Tag: COVID19

Hong Kong is now the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak fuelled by the extremely contagious Omicron variant

The country's top health official said the bodies of virus victims could now be handed over to relatives for burial at any cemetery

The Episcopal Commission on Liturgy of the bishops’ conference said priests are now allowed to put ashes on the foreheads of churchgoers

Women from the Philippines and Indonesia who work as domestic helpers have suffered more under Hong Kong's pandemic restrictions

A breakthrough of the highly transmissible Omicron variant exposed how little authorities had done to prepare for a mass outbreak

Allowing mainland medics to work in Hong Kong has been a source of debate for years

“It is now very urgent and so necessary to assist and to help our OFWs in Hong Kong," said Bishop Ruperto Santos

Charities said last week that foreign domestic workers in the wealthy city were being "abandoned" amid the COVID-19 wave

More than 8,000 people were confirmed positive with COVID-19 from Feb. 6-12, a new record for the nation

Pope Francis recalled a lesson of the COVID-19 pandemic, that illness is “a global and not a merely individual phenomenon”