Dr Gordon Yuet Hong Wu
Resident trainee, Accident and Emergency Department, Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong

In view of the COVID-19 pandemics, the newly built North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre (HKICC), which is right next to the HK International Airport, has started admission of COVID-19 ambulatory patients with mild to moderate clinical conditions.

Dr Axel Siu, Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine

I always have a dream to extend our scope of emergency medicine beyond our ER. In March 2020, COVID 19 was still greatly impacting Wuhan, forcing it to blockade. Many Hong Kong citizens were detained there for a few months already. The Hong Kong SAR ultimately decided to arrange a charter flight to bring them back home.

Dr Alzamani Mohammad Idrose
Consultant Emergency Physician
A Malaysian front liner

By May 2021, Malaysia has a total of more than 440,000 COVID-19 cases with more than 1600 deaths. When COVID-19 first hit Malaysian shores on 25 February 2020, it could not have happened at a worse time.

Since the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control because of early and effective prevention. Most cases have been imported from abroad, though the island has reported sporadic domestic infections in recent months. Taiwan’s total case numbers remain extremely small compared with those of some other parts of the world.

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