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Angry marchers target students at Japanese schools

Social workers yesterday stormed two Japanese schools, demanding students be taught 'the truth' about Japan's military attacks on China and other Asian countries.

A torn Japanese military flag was painted and slogans reading 'end militarism' and 'maintain world peace' were posted outside the Hong Kong Japanese School's secondary section in North Point.

The group marched on to the primary section in Happy Valley and delivered pamphlets condemning Japan. Protesters tried to enter the schools to talk to the students but were stopped. Police were called.

A resident of a fenced-off residential compound asks a health worker to help pick up his groceries, in Beijing on Sunday. Photo: AP
A resident of a fenced-off residential compound asks a health worker to help pick up his groceries, in Beijing on Sunday. Photo: AP

Coronavirus: as China hits record 40,052 daily cases, can zero-Covid continue?

  • Case numbers will increase if stringent measures are not sustainable, Hong Kong epidemiologist says, warning of winter surge
  • End mass PCR tests, focus resources on severe cases and boost elderly vaccination rates, public health experts advise

A resident of a fenced-off residential compound asks a health worker to help pick up his groceries, in Beijing on Sunday. Photo: AP
A resident of a fenced-off residential compound asks a health worker to help pick up his groceries, in Beijing on Sunday. Photo: AP

The latest Covid-19 waves in China have revealed more transmissible but less lethal strains of the coronavirus, but it is too early to be optimistic, public health experts have warned.

Just days after China relaxed some zero-Covid measures, infection numbers in the current outbreak hit a new high of 40,052 on Monday, with 36,304 yet to show symptoms.

As of Monday, 104 cases were identified as “severe”, with seven deaths recorded so far. All patients who died were over 80 and had comorbidities.

The waves risk burdening the health system and if China were to change its response, it should put fewer resources into mass testing and more into vaccination and public education, according to one epidemiologist.

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