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Uruguay, Iraq deposit crop seeds at Arctic doomsday vault

Representatives from various countries and universities arrive in the Svalbard's global seed vault with new seeds, in Longyearbyen, Norway, Feb 25, 2020. (NTB SCANPIX/LISE ASERUD VIA REUTERS) OSLO – A vault built on an Arctic island to preserve the world's crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes will receive...
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Sewage tests help find hidden Covid cases: govt

Environment Secretary Wong Kam-sing has defended the government's method of locating hidden Covid cases by testing sewage samples from buildings. This came after former Hospital Authority chief Leung Pak-yin said it is a waste of resources to adopt the tactic during the height of the epidemic, saying confirmed patients isolating...
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Tin Shui Wai block under lockdown over sewage

The government on Wednesday afternoon locked down a block in Tin Shui Wai, after sewage samples there tested positive for Covid-19. Residents and visitors of Shing Yin House of Tin Shing Court must get tested. The authorities said they suspect there are asymptomatic patients in the building, and the risk...
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Watchdog warns against too much processed meat

The Consumer Council has warned people not to eat too much processed meat, saying that some products are high in sodium and contain substances that can cause cancer. The council tested 23 ham and 7 turkey slice samples and found that over 90 percent of them were high in sodium....
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‘Positive test may be due to virus in vaccines’

Health experts said on Thursday that samples of a man who tested positive for the coronavirus might have been contaminated by inactivated virus strains from Sinovac vaccines. If confirmed, it would be the second such case in about three months. The 32-year-old office worker, who had not been vaccinated, had...
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‘Reduced-fat milk is much fatter than low-fat milk’

The Consumer Council warned on Wednesday that reduced-fat milk could contain twice as much fat as low-fat milk, saying customers should read nutrition labels carefully. The watchdog said it had recently tested 40 milk products – with around 10 of them claiming to be reduced-fat or low-fat – and results...
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Sample collection must be done right: expert

Top microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung on Monday urged the government to check if outsourced workers had collected samples for coronavirus tests properly, warning it could be one of the loopholes in the city’s quarantine measures. His comment comes after a foreign domestic helper who had no recent travel history came down...
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‘Tests prove mutant strain has spread silently’

Government advisers say tests show a mutated Covid strain must have spread silently from a returnee from Dubai to a foreign domestic helper in Tung Chung, after researchers confirmed that both were carrying an identical variant first identified in South Africa. Microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung said his colleagues at the University...
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Two buildings in To Kwa Wan put on lockdown

Two buildings in To Kwa Wan put on lockdown Two residential buildings in To Kwa Wan are the latest to be placed under ambush-style lockdown by the government. It's the 10th straight evening officials have launched such operations, requiring residents to get tested for Covid-19. People who live in Kiu...
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