A government advisor on the pandemic, Gabriel Leung, has urged the government to consider putting the entire city under lockdown, saying no other social distancing measures will be able to contain the Omicron outbreaks. He did not say how long the ...

Hong Kong on Thursday reported another 986 Covid-19 infections, all but one of them locally transmitted. There were also around 800 preliminary positive cases. The Centre for Health Protection said some of the cases are linked to DB Plaza in Disco...

More government services were disrupted on Thursday as staff came down with the coronavirus. The Land Registry’s customer centre in Admiralty was closed for the day after the test result of a worker there came back preliminary positive. Limited s...

A restaurant manager has expressed concern that the upcoming "vaccine pass" requirement will spark conflict between staff and patrons. Type D restaurants – which are allowed to seat up to four people at a table – are subject to the new arrangem...

The government said on Thursday that it had found 14 preliminary positive Covid cases during an overnight lockdown on two blocks in Long Ping Estate in Yuen Long. Authorities said they had finished testing around 980 people at Cheuk Ping House, and...

The government said on Thursday that it had found 73 preliminary positive Covid-19 cases during an extended lockdown of a residential block in Tuen Mun. Authorities initially imposed a lockdown on Leung Kit House at Leung King Estate on Sunday nigh...

An expert advising the government on the Covid-19 pandemic says patients with no or mild symptoms should self-isolate at home if hospitals become overwhelmed, but their family members who are at high risk should be sent to a centralised facility to a...

Hong Kong is expecting more than 980 new Covid cases on Thursday, according to RTHK sources. If confirmed, that would be a drop from the record high of 1,161 infections recorded the day before. On Wednesday, the city also reported two deaths from ...

An assistant professor from the Chinese University’s School of Public Health and Primary Care warned on Thursday that Hong Kong might see a daily Covid caseload of two to five thousand infections in the coming few days. The city reported a record ...

Health authorities on Thursday issued home quarantine orders for some close contacts of Covid patients, as well as people who were more indirectly linked them. A list published on the Centre for Health Protection website shows they live in around 3...

Hong Kong's strictest social-distancing rules to date took effect on Thursday, including new restrictions on public and private gatherings. In announcing the curbs on Tuesday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam had stressed stringent measures are needed to...

The operator of two bus firms is hoping for wage support to avoid laying-off staff as bus passenger numbers plummet. Bravo Transport Services runs CityBus and New World First Bus, and has seen ridership plunge more than 40 percent amid Covid restrict...

A community organiser from the group DB Watchdog says a new compulsory testing order, covering the main plaza in Discovery Bay, will further compound problems there. The order follows a separate one, issued late on Tuesday, after sewage samples wer...

Health Officials have ordered residents and visitors of parts of Yuen Long and Tai Po to undergo Covid-19 tests by Friday, after traces of the coronavirus were detected in sewage samples. More than a dozen buildings are listed in the compulsory tes...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that she is "deeply sorry and anxious" about the long wait people have to endure before they can get tested, or enter isolation facilities after they test positive for the virus. Writing on her Facebook ...

The SAR government on Wednesday strongly condemned a statement issued by an overseas coalition over the press freedom situation in Hong Kong, calling it "totally erroneous". Earlier this week, 22 member countries of the Media Freedom Coalition accu...

A clinical virologist from the University of Hong Kong, Dr Siddharth Sridhar, has warned that tougher social-distancing measures coming into force would only slow the spread of the coronavirus, but not halt infections altogether. He said the number ...

Authorities announced on Wednesday that they're extending the lockdown at a residential block in Tuen Mun into a fourth night. That's after 70 residents at Leung Kit House in Leung King Estate tested preliminary positive for Covid-19 over the past f...

Newly-infected Covid-19 patients will have to wait for days to be taken to hospital as a large number of new cases swamp medical and isolation facilities, the Hospital Authority warned on Wednesday. A chief manager of the authority, Larry Lee, said...

The government said on Wednesday that postal services would be disrupted in Aberdeen and Tseung Kwan O after their staff tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. Hongkong Post said the cases involve a postal officer working behind the counter at th...