Snapshots of daily life as city fights COVID-19

HONG KONG – Hong Kong is easing its discharge criteria for COVID-19 patients and close contacts in quarantine, as the city has reported 17,063 new COVID-19 notification cases and 66 deaths today.All but six of the new infections were locally transmitted.The patients who died were aged 19 to 101, with 61 of them being elderly people. Only eight of the patients, who passed away, had received one or two jabs, with the rest being unvaccinated.The 19-year-old patient who died had chronic illnesses

Addressing yesterday’s daily press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Lo Iek Long, clinical director of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, said that today’s resumption of the public administration’s “basic” services does not mean that residents could gradually resume their normal lifestyles, pointing out that the government has decided to resume its “basic” services as their continued suspension would “seriously” affect some