Tag: pandemic

The pandemic accelerated digitization and automation by governments and firms, but there is a risk of widening inequality

Authorities are now avoiding the implementation of mass city-wide lockdowns seen previously in favor of a more focused response

In less than three months, the fifth wave's 600,000 confirmed infections have eclipsed the 12,000 recorded in the pandemic's first two years

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

SWS noted that net personal optimism score in the survey was was +42, classified by the polling firm as "excellent"

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

March 2, 2022, Ash Wednesday, marked the beginning of the “new normal” in the Philippine capital and 38 other areas in the country

Most COVID-19 restrictions were scrapped this week after a sharp drop in infections and increased vaccinations

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