The Hospital Authority says three nurses at Queen Elizabeth Hospital have tested preliminary positive for Covid-19, but the infections don't appear to be linked. Two of the nurses worked together in an isolation ward and had taken care of coronavir...

A health expert said on Monday that the government should avoid giving sick and weak elderly people the coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech when the inoculation programme starts in Hong Kong, saying more time is needed to observe its side effec...

The government on Monday filed a writ at the High Court claiming it had been duped into paying tens of millions of dollars for Japanese face masks that turned out not to be Japanese after all. The writ says the Government Logistics Department purcha...

The government said on Monday that a planned multi-billion-dollar overhaul will allow Ocean Park to return to profitability as soon as 2024. Under the recently unveiled plans, the attraction will scrap its entrance fees and turn the entire lowland a...

A representative of the Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market on Monday warned against any move to put the site into lockdown amid rising Covid-19 cases in the neighbourhood, saying the market is not designed for people to spend the night there. Almost ...

A partial evacuation has been ordered for Block 5 of Laguna City in Lam Tin after 10 residents and two security guards recently came down with Covid-19. Top microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung, who inspected the building on Monday, said one of the guards,...

The DAB has called for committees to be set up to monitor whether district councillors are fulfilling the requirements of the oath of office they are expected to be ordered to take in the near future. Last week, the government said it will shortly t...

The University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Students’ Union has expressed “extreme regret” over the institution’s decision to punish union leaders for organising a memorial event on campus, repainting a protest slogan on a campus path, a...

An infectious disease expert said on Monday that he believes it was necessary for the government to put part of Jordan under lockdown at the weekend, but it should have been done sooner. Officials say 0.17 percent, or 13 people out of more than 7,00...

Businesses in the Jordan area, which was locked down over the weekend following a surge in Covid-19 cases, say they have suffered great financial losses, while residents complained of confusing and inadequate arrangements. A man surnamed Law said h...

An epidemiologist has cast doubt on the effectiveness of further lockdowns in Hong Kong, after just 13 people out of more than 7,000 tested in the Jordan area at the weekend tested positive. Speaking on Monday, Benjamin Cowling of the University of ...

The government on Monday morning ended the lockdown restrictions on a block of streets in Jordan, that had been at the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak. The area, around Shanghai Street, was sealed off early on Saturday, when health workers were brought...

The government late on Sunday said a building in the Sham Shui Po specified area had met the criteria for compulsory testing for Covid-19. The building is on Nam Cheong Street. Residents of buildings in specified areas have to be tested if there is...

Residents of the locked-down area of Jordan said they were thrilled to be allowed to leave earlier than expected at 6pm on Sunday, with many saying they were desperate to get some decent food. A resident surnamed Cheng said he had been eating instan...

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department says it will start cleansing the Jordan lockdown area, once restrictions are fully lifted. In a statement issued on Sunday evening, it said work would begin in the early hours of Monday and that Yau Ma ...

Residents who've tested negative for Covid-19 can now leave and re-enter the locked down area of Jordan provided they wear an official wristband, the Home Affairs Secretary Caspar Tsui said in a press conference on Sunday evening. Wrapping up the tw...

Officials says 13 of the more than 7,000 people who've been tested for Covid-19 in the locked-down area of Jordan since Saturday were preliminary positive. Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan from the Centre for Health Protection told a press conference on Sunday ...

The chairman of the Federation of Civil Service Unions, Leung Chau-ting, warned on Sunday that more young civil servants would want to leave the government rather than sign an oath of allegiance to the Basic Law and the SAR. Speaking on RTHK’s Ci...

A Yau Tsim Mong district councillor on Sunday accused the government of failing to show cultural sensitivity in its treatment of people locked down in Jordan, after Muslim residents were handed food packages containing luncheon meat. Officials hande...

A government adviser on the pandemic has said the area around the Yau Ma Tei wholesale fruit market may be next to face a lockdown, as he urged officials to move faster to avoid leaks if they have to seal off an area of town again. David Hui, a res...