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Another tax rise needed as city struggles to reduce the number of smokers and improve its financial position.
Rise in respiratory illnesses in mainland China may be driven by known pathogens, but, as with Covid-19, vigilance and transparency are required
With city cases having doubled in four years, now is the time to face the problem, monitor public wellness and reach out to those who require support.
Shelling and clashes have been reported in south Gaza’s main city of Khan Younis and elsewhere, with 12 members of the same family among those killed overnight.
It was thought around half the people in China were infected but new study cites a much lower figure.
Tobacco and Alcohol Control Office staff catch 14-year-old distributing ‘huge stack’ of smoking advertising leaflets from his backpack.
Deduction on assisted reproductive services expected to cover services obtained from both public and private clinics, while ones undergone outside city not eligible.
Obesity is so prevalent it has become more common than being underweight in most nations.
Three city measles cases logged in January and February, the same number recorded in each of the previous two years.
Israeli forces in war-torn Gaza opened fire on Palestinians scrambling for food aid in a chaotic melee on Thursday that the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said killed more than 100 people.
Israeli prime minister claimed total victory in Gaza would come within weeks once the offensive begins.
Doctors complain of a drug shortage amid a spike in respiratory diseases caused by multiple pathogens.
About 410,000 people, or 5.6 per cent of Hong Kong’s population, estimated to have been infected with virus.
Israel warned that it will push on with its offensive during the Muslim holy month, including in the far-southern Rafah area.
More than 13.5 billion doses of Covid vaccines have been administered globally over the past three years. A small proportion were injured by the shots, stoking debate about their benefits versus harms.
PM Netanyahu insisted he would seek ‘complete victory’, despite mounting calls to hold off on sending troops into the Gaza city packed with refugees.
Concentrations of some pollutants climbed last year, although air quality was second best to 2002 since city returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
‘It’s related to the weather, the virus is less active when it’s warm,’ says David Hui, professor of respiratory medicine at Chinese University.
A string of countries paused funding to the aid agency in the wake of allegations that some UNRWA staff were involved in Hamas’ October 7 attacks in southern Israel.
Academic estimates 28,000 smokers will quit habit, preventing 9,350 premature deaths.
Mathematicians from Germany and Hong Kong say ‘the market is not more likely to be the origin’ when compared to other nearby landmarks, although they do not offer a hypothesis on where the outbreak started.
The ICJ ruling stopped short of ordering a ceasefire, but was in part a rebuke of Israel’s conduct in its nearly four-month war against Hamas.
In the clip, Daniella Gilboa and Karina Ariev, both 19, say they are Israeli soldiers, while Doron Steinbrecher, 30, says she lives near the Gaza border.
The UN health agency called for urgent vaccination efforts to halt the spread of the disease, after 42,200 infections were reported on the continent in 2023.
The action by about 20 people on Monday signalled growing domestic dissent in the fourth month of the Gaza war against Hamas.
‘With vaccine uptake in some communities so low, there is now a very real risk of seeing the virus spread in other towns and cities’.
A joint US-China research team says their ‘powerful and affordable tool’ can also filter nanoplastic-contaminated water.
A new video released by the Palestinian militant group purportedly showed the bodies of Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, who had appeared in previous footage on Sunday.
Sixty per cent of reviewed products had no clear labelling about live bacteria they contained, while only 15 samples had all strains of probiotics clearly printed on packaging, watchdog reveals.