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.Participants prepare to take part in an ice-bathing ceremony during the annual new year Shinto ritual to purify the body and soul at Teppozu Inari Shinto Shrine on January 9, 2022 in Tokyo, Japan. This years ceremony was scaled back and closed to the general public as a precaution against Covid-19.Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan expects the city’s economy to take a hit as a fifth wave of coronavirus infections sparked by the omicron variant takes hold.
The government has yet to give economic forecasts for 2022, which is expected during Chan’s annual budget speech in February, but he said in his blog post on Sunday that he will also take into account the global pandemic, supply-chain bottlenecks and changes in monetary policies by western central banks in making his predictions.
Economists at Morgan Stanley and Bloomberg Economics have already cut their economic growth forecasts for Hong Kong, citing the delayed reopening of borders with China amid the omicron wave. Citigroup will begin enforcing a ‘no jab, no job’ policy as of Jan.
A study by professor Resia Pretorius, the head of physiological sciences, found that an overload of inflammatory molecules trapped inside microscopic blood clots could cause of some of long Covid’s symptoms. Results of the research — using plasma samples from healthy individuals, those with type 2 diabetes, acute Covid and long Covid — have been published the journalAccording to the World Health Organisation , women and health-care workers appear to face the highest risk of long Covid, and the organisation has urged scientists to make understanding the condition a priority.
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