Macau copes with its current COVID-19 outbreak as best as it can

Today marks World Hearing Day, with this year’s theme “Changing mindset: Empowering yourself to make ear and hearing care a reality for all!” – and locally, Macau Deaf Association (MDA) Director Nerissa Lau Sut Man told the media yesterday that her group currently looks after about 800 people, adding that over the last three years there has been more than a double-digit increase in the number of people with hearing impairment, a condition which ranks second among locals’

Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said today that Hong Kong has recorded three COVID-19 infections involving the Mu variant which has been newly listed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a "variant of interest".The CHP said the patients in question had arrived from Colombia, where the variant was first discovered, and the United States.University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung had called on the authorities to make cases of the Mu variant public, saying