Mainland China and Hong Kong are the last significant Covid-Zero holdouts after places like Singapore and Australia pivoted to viewing the virus as endemic, with the arrival of Omicron throwing the strict zero-tolerance approach into disarray. Source: China reports biggest one-day tally of Covid since Wuhan outbreak
By Alice Wu We haven’t come very far since the beginning of Covid-19. Last week’s empty supermarket shelves looked like we had gone back to February 2020, when panic buying and stockpiling toilet paper got us on international headlines. Back then, it even got a Singaporean minister to call Hongkongers “idiots”.Most of the world, even […]
Russia’s attack on its European neighbour has generated relatively little condemnation in Asia compared to the West. Source: In rare stand, South Korea, Singapore unveil sanctions on Russia Category: News