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About half of Hong Kong’s 7.4 million people have already been infected with Covid-19, according to an estimate of the damage caused by the deadly omicron wave that’s overwhelmed the city.
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong determined that about 3.6 million Hong Kongers caught the disease through March 14. That’s up from an estimated 1.8 million infections they concluded had developed through March 7 based on disease modeling and an in-depth analysis of the ongoing outbreak.
While the current wave peaked on March 4, many more people will catch Covid before it ends, the researchers said. The total is likely to reach about 4.5 million, they said.
More than 5,100 people will die from Covid by May 1, the researchers forecast, up from an earlier estimate of about 5,010.
Elderly residents of care homes account for 59% of total deaths, they said.
Hong Kong confirmed more than 27,700 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, while 13 private hospitals pledged to reserve a total of 1,000 beds mostly for non-Covid patients to help ease the pressure on the public health care system.
A total of 15,809 cases were logged through a new online government portal by residents using at-home rapid antigen tests, in addition to 11,956 confirmed through polymerase chain reaction screenings, bringing the daily total to 27,765. Hong Kong's overall Covid-19 tally stood at 761,550.
(20220315 Bloomberg/SCMP)
The Atrium is located on the ground floor and is easily accessible from Jubilee Street, Queen Victoria Street and Des Voeux Road Central.
It will provide not less than 700㎡ of public open space and is landscaped for passive recreation and leisure uses.
An open-plan design was proposed to serve as a central focal gathering place as well as a lively and flexible space for a wide range of cultural and leisure activities, exhibitions and public events.
位於地下的中庭將提供不少於700平方米的公眾休憩空間，作綠化等靜態康樂用途。中庭位置方便易達，連接租庇利街、域多利皇后街和德輔道中均十分方便，開放式設計有利於作為一個生動、靈活的聚會地點，作多種如展覽等文化和休閒活動。
(centralmarket.hk)
Hong Kong retail sales in April rose 12.1 per cent year on year, marking a slowdown in momentum for the industry’s recovery even as the Covid-19 crisis continued to abate.
A government spokesman attributed April’s growth to the low basis of comparison last year.
“But retail sales volume was still far below its pre-pandemic level, as inbound tourism remained frozen,” he added.
(20210601 SCMP)
Hong Kong's fifth Covid-19 wave turns busy streets into surreal empty spaces.
The city looks eerily empty as work from home arrangements and tightened social-distancing rules grip the city. （20220218 SCMP)
New coronavirus cases in Hong Kong on Wednesday reached another record high at 55,353, with health authorities saying large freezer containers will be set up at public hospitals to store dead bodies as mortuaries are reaching capacity.
The latest daily Covid-19 tally is a 70 percent jump from the 32,597 infections recorded on Tuesday. (20220302 RTHK news)
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Kimpu Shrine (金峯神社) is a Shinto shrine located in Yoshino district, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The honden, or main hall, is constructed in the nagare-zukuri style.
In 2004, It was designated as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.
-Wikipedia
Uptown is the hot place to live catering to young urbanites, millenials, and old guys like me who just like the atmosphere of color, food, arts, and kitsch.
I thought this young fellow was as least as equally as colorful in hair do as the alley wall, and a prime example of one of the denizens of the Uptown area.
Although the high density building blight hit Uptown, and unique buildings torn town to make way for boxy utilitarian looking rabbit warrens, there still are enough of the old buildings , now tastefully refurbished, to make the area truly unique.
The number of new coronavirus infections in Hong Kong reached another record high of 7,533 cases on Monday, as an 11-month-old girl became one of the latest people to die after catching the virus.
By comparison, Singapore, with a population and city size similar to those of Hong Kong, has been reporting record-high numbers of Covid-19 cases, even more than 10,000 cases per day several times. Singaporeans seem to have adapted to the “coexistence” model, and its health care system has not been heavily affected.
“The reason is that the Home Recovery Program for mild cases has mitigated the pressure on Singapore's health care system,” Alex Cook, associate professor at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, told Caixin, noting that this is one of the main differences between the epidemic control approach of Singapore and that of Hong Kong.
From September 2021, Singapore no longer admits all confirmed cases to hospitals or quarantine facilities, and cases with no symptoms or only mild symptoms can recover at home, provided that they must live in separate en-suite rooms with good ventilation, and remain contact-free with fellow residents and deliverymen. According to professor Alex Cook, although Singapore's approach increases the risk of home and community transmission, it frees up more hospital beds and spares medical resources for those who really need them.
However, most Hong Kong people live in cramped spaces, with a per capita living space of only 15.8 square meters, making it difficult to secure separate quarantine spaces if the home recovery program is adopted. Recently, as many cases with mild symptoms could not be hospitalized, all their family members have been infected, making it more difficult to control the epidemic.（www.caixinglobal.com)
Thought this might make an interesting composition. Maybe should have reversed the point of focus. Ill have to work with this more. The color of the car was just perfect for a frame tho.
In the past, due to the rather dark environment of the market, whenever you bought eggs you had to lift them up one by one and hold them in front of a lamp – traditionally with a red lampshade to examine them.
The light passing through the egg shell would reveal a shadow inside, and you could check whether the egg was broken or even hatching into a chick.
In the old market, the most popular red lamp shades became the classic "egg lights" for illuminating eggs. With their unique appearance, they gradually become a symbol of traditional market culture.
So we transformed this classic market lamp shade into a large art installation at the two main entrances on the ground floor. We retained the form and proportions, but scaled the lamps to half the size.
Five hundred of these mini “egg lamp shades” are positioned neatly in a circle and hang from the ceiling at the two main entrances. These traditional red “egg” lamp shades along with modern bronze lamp shades on each side, symbolise the coexistence and integration of traditional and modern markets.
以往由於街市環境昏暗，每當到雜貨店買雞蛋，便需將雞蛋逐一舉起，放到燈前照看。光穿過蛋殻，會呈現出內部的影子，你便可以檢查雞蛋有沒有破裂，甚至是否正孵化成雛雞。
而在舊時街市中，最普及常見的紅色罩燈，就成為了照雞蛋用的經典「雞蛋燈」，加上外型獨特，更漸漸作為傳統街市文化的象徵。
我們把這盞經典的街市罩燈，化身為設置於地下兩個主入口的大型藝術裝置。500盞按原比例縮成約1:2袖珍大小的「雞蛋燈」，整齊一圈圈排列，吊掛在天花上。一邊入口保留原有代表傳統的紅色燈罩，另一面入口則改成代表現代的銅色燈罩，象徵傳統與現代街市的並存與融合。
(centralmarket.hk)
The photo of red lamp shades in a market :
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INDIA RAJASTHAN VIAGGIO FOTOGRAFICO MARZO 2021
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Taken while I was waiting for a memorial Mass to conclude, so I could light and shoot for an assignment.
I've done a few, and posted a couple, of photos that I tone to accentuare how what is old becomes tremendously interesting when shot in a modern day setting.
Which pauses me to think, that we never are "old", we become more "interesting."😉
Down by the jetty, the captain of our boat, on the right of the picture, leads another crew patching and repairing the beached boat for our return trip from Mrauk-U to Sittwe.
Mrauk-U, Rakhine State, MYANMAR (Burma), Southeast Asia, Asia