Coronavirus infections in Hong Kong continued to rise on Saturday to another record high of 1,514, as health officials warned that case numbers would remain at a high level for some time. The Controller of the Centre for Health Protection, Edwin Ts...

Police said on Saturday that they had arrested a 32-year-old man suspected of encouraging Covid-19 patients to spread the virus. Officers said remarks made on an online discussion forum contravened the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance. ...

Hong Kong is expected to report more than 1,500 new Covid cases on Saturday, sources have told RTHK. It would be another record following the 1,325 confirmed infections reported on Friday. Officials said they identified more coronavirus cases durin...

Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong on Saturday appealed to private doctors to help vaccinate elderly residents living in care homes, warning that many of them might die of Covid-19 if the coronavirus outbreak and vaccine take-up doesn't i...

A senior public hospital doctor said on Saturday that hospitals were facing an "unprecedented" situation, as the Covid crisis forced adults and children to share the same wards and an influx of patients at emergency wards leaves ambulances unable to ...

Pok Oi Hospital says a four-year-old boy who died on Friday has subsequently tested positive for Covid-19. The hospital said the boy's breathing and heartbeat were found to have stopped when he was taken to its accident and emergency department arou...

The government on Saturday morning issued a compulsory testing notice ordering people who have visited 16 specified premises to get tested for Covid-19. "In view of a number of cases tested preliminarily positive/positive, 16 specified places are in...

More than a million customers of the Harbour Plaza Hotel group are being advised to be on their guard for possible scams after its booking database came under a cyber attack. Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung said on Friday that she's probing the data...

The government has extended pandemic flight bans for eight countries by two weeks and added Nepal to the list, prohibiting inbound flights from these places until March 4. There have been no flights from Australia, Canada, France, India, Pakistan, t...

The government on Friday put two public housing blocks in Sham Shui Po under lockdown after sewage samples taken from the buildings tested positive for Covid. Officials said they suspect there are asymptomatic patients in Begonia House at So Uk Est...

Older residents and disabled people will soon be able to use more modes of public transport for just HK$2 per journey. The government said in a statement on Friday that the concessionary fare scheme will be extended to trams, 45 red minibus routes a...

Hong Kong saw 1,325 new coronavirus infections on Friday, and with over 1,500 preliminary positive cases reported for the day, health officials said the city's outbreaks have yet to peak. The number of new confirmed infections topped the previous r...

Chief Secretary John Lee and a delegation of Hong Kong ministers are set to meet mainland officials in Shenzhen on Saturday to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic, the government said. A statement said Lee, Security Secretary Chris Tang, Transport Secreta...

A former controller of the Centre for Health Protection on Friday said now is not the time to discuss whether Hong Kong should "live with Covid", saying people should instead give the government's “dynamic zero” strategy a chance. During an int...

DAB chairwoman Starry Lee on Friday welcomed news that mainland officials overseeing Hong Kong's affairs will help with anti-epidemic efforts here, saying it shows Beijing's care for the SAR. Health Secretary Sophia Chan confirmed during a Legco me...

Hongkong Post said on Friday that the Discovery Bay post office is closed and mail delivery to the community may be delayed. It said the post office will resume operation as soon as possible, after the plaza it’s located in is disinfected and reop...

Authorities on Friday said they have detected nine preliminary positive cases during the lockdown of a building in Yuen Long. More than 1,400 residents of Hung Lok House at Hung Fuk Estate were tested overnight. The block was sealed off on Thursday...

A contractor running a Covid-19 testing centre said on Friday that the new ticket-distributing system had failed to shorten queues as more people are being subject to compulsory testing orders. Chris Wong from the Hong Kong Molecular Pathology Diag...

Hong Kong’s daily Covid-19 tally is set to continue rising and hit another record high, with sources telling RTHK that the number of new infections on Friday will exceed 1,300. There were 986 cases on Thursday, all but one were local infections. ...

An expert advising the government on its Covid vaccination programme has urged authorities to drastically increase the capacity of vaccination centres and recruit as many medical personnel as it can to support them. Professor Lau Yu-lung told an RTH...