Jinshan Hong

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  • Tourists along the promenade in the Tsim Sha Tsui area in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Hong Kong will stop requiring masks to be worn in public places from Wednesday, drawing to a close the prolonged Covid era that damaged its economy and standing in the world. Photographer: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHealth

    945 days later: Hong Kong is ending one of the world’s longest mask mandates

    By Jinshan Hong, Kari Lindberg, and others
  • A man buys fever medicine at a pharmacy amid the Covid-19 pandemic in Nanjing, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province, on December 19, 2022, as the pharmacy offers six capsules for each client. – China OUT (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)Health

    China says 2 have died since change in COVID rules. Experts say the numbers don’t add up

    By Jennifer Creery, Jinshan Hong, and others
  • Expat familes depart Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok international airport on March 6, 2022 as travel restrictions hit hard on Hong Kong’s white collar “expat” foreign workers, who make up roughly 10 percent of the population with borders effectively sealed to visitors and residents who do return have faced 2-3 weeks in expensive hotel quarantines throughout most of the pandemic. – – TO GO WITH: Virus-health-Hong Kong-China-economy, FOCUS by Manon BILLING (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) / TO GO WITH: Virus-health-Hong Kong-China-economy, FOCUS by Manon BILLING (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Hong Kong has a plan to stem its COVID brain drain. Here’s how its new visa stacks up to Singapore for high-earning expats

    By Sarah Zheng, Jinshan Hong, and others
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    Hong Kong scraps hotel quarantine in bid to save financial center status. Here’s the new 7-day testing regimen that allows free movement

    By Jinshan Hong, Kari Lindberg, and others
  • A poster advertising the vaccination program outside a community vaccination center administering the BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine imported by Fosun Pharma in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. More Hong Kong residents are getting their first shots against Covid-19 as a cluster of omicron infections grows and an expansion of the vaccine mandate looms. Photographer: Chan Long Hei/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    Amid a shortage of child COVID vaccines, Hong Kong may give kids a partial dose of the adult BioNTech shot

    By Jinshan Hong and Bloomberg
  • Irvine, CA – January 03: A healthcare worker talks with people waiting in line for a COVID-19 test at Kaiser Permanente in Irvine, CA on Monday, January 3, 2022. Lines for testing stretched around the block, taking about two hours to reach the front. (Photo by Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)Health

    The U.S. sets a global COVID record—over 1 million cases recorded in one day

    By Jinshan Hong and Bloomberg
  • A staff member transports a cargo containing Sinovac vaccines in Pasay City, the Philippines on Nov. 17, 2021. Carlito Galvez, the chief implementer of the government’s measures to combat COVID-19, thanked China for the “steady and timely delivery of the life-saving vaccines” after the country received on Wednesday one more batch of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccines. (Photo by Rouelle Umali/Xinhua via Getty Images)Health

    Sinovac—one of the world’s most widely used COVID shots—loses antibody protection against Omicron, says Hong Kong study

    By Jinshan Hong and Bloomberg
  • LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM &#8211; 2021/10/06: A health worker holds a vial containing Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre.<br /> Fully vaccinated British travelers will no longer need to take a pre-departure PCR test before arriving in England. (Photo by Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Health

    Same vaccines, but different fatality rates: why are some COVID outbreaks worse than others?

    By Jinshan Hong, Lisa Du, and others

  • Hong Kong tightens COVID travel rules on 16 countries, ‘devastating’ business planning

    By Jinshan Hong, Bruce Einhorn, and others
  • People wearing face masks walk along the promenade at Marina Bay in Singapore on May 14, 2021, ahead of tightening restrictions over concerns of a rise in Covid-19 coronavirus cases. (Photo by Roslan Rahman / AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)International

    For ‘COVID Zero’ success stories, opening up is hard to do

    By Michelle Fay Cortez, Jinshan Hong, and others
  • MACAU-SOCIETY-PEOPLEInternational

    Casino stocks soar as world’s gambling capital eases travel restrictions

    By Jinshan Hong, Daniela Wei, and others
  • Hong Kong DisneylandInternational

    Hong Kong Disneyland and additional venues to close amid new coronavirus safety measures

    By Jinshan Hong, Manuel Baigorri, and others
  • Hong Kong Parks and Commuters as Government Reopens Public Facilities on Dwindling Virus CasesInternational

    Mystery coronavirus case ends Hong Kong’s 23-day streak of no local transmission

    By Jinshan Hong and Bloomberg
  • 20 March 2020, North Rhine-Westphalia, Viersen: A ventilator is placed next to an intensive care bed in the Viersen General Hospital. The hospital has created additional capacities of intensive care beds and ventilators due to the corona crisis. Photo: Roland Weihrauch/dpa (Photo by Roland Weihrauch/picture alliance via Getty Images)International

    World ventilator demand is now 10 times what’s available, says China’s top medical device maker

    By Jinshan Hong, Dong Lyu, and others
  • HONG KONG, CHINA &#8211; 2019/08/02: British fashion brand Burberry store seen in Hong Kong airport. (Photo by Geovien So/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Retail

    Chinese luxury industry rebounds from coronavirus thanks to ‘revenge spending’

    By Robert Williams, Jinshan Hong, and others