Health authorities on Sunday reported 1,347 new Covid-19 cases as they announced that three types of patients will have priority in hospital admission, to help cope with a surge in infections that's putting a strain on resources. Authorities also an...

An NGO on Sunday urged the Financial Secretary, Paul Chan, to take on the concept of "common prosperity" extolled by President Xi Jinping and roll out more targeted measures in the upcoming budget, including cash handouts to the unemployed and poor p...

The Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) on Sunday called on the government to allow mainland medical staff to work in Hong Kong temporarily in the fight against the pandemic. Mainland officials told a Hong Kong government delegation a day earlier that ...

Health officials completed overnight lockdowns in two areas on Sunday, finding eight preliminary positive cases at a block in Sha Tin and a further six at homes in Sheung Shui. Both lockdowns were ordered on Saturday night after the virus was found...

The government is changing the quarantine arrangements for elderly home residents, amid rising Covid-19 cases and a lack of isolation facilities. The quarantine period for care home residents and staff has been shortened by a week to seven days. ...

The head of an organisation that supports non-Chinese children in learning the language says it's time for the government to set up a curriculum starting from kindergarten level for second-language learners. Maggie Holmes, the co-founder of Chinese ...

The government says supplies of vegetables and chilled poultry into Hong Kong may be affected on Sunday, after some mainland goods drivers tested preliminary positive for Covid on Friday. It said disinfection had been taking place at the border int...

The government on Saturday evening issued a compulsory testing notice ordering people who had visited 15 specified premises to get tested for Covid-19. The locations were sites in Tai Wai, Tuen Mun, Tung Chung, Sheung Shui, Ma On Shan, Sha Tin, Sham...

The government on Saturday said it has no plans at this stage for a citywide lockdown, as it expects forthcoming assistance from the mainland to be effective in helping Hong Kong rein in a sharp surge in Covid-19 cases. Briefing the media after a da...

The government on Saturday cordoned off Ching Cheung House, on Cheung Lung Wai Estate, in Sheung Shui for compulsory Covid testing. Health officials made the order after discovering that sewage samples from the block contained the coronavirus. Re...

Three new vaccination centres will starting taking reservations on Monday. The government announced on Saturday that the new centres would be located at Tuen Mun Town Hall, Wo Hing Playground in Fanling, and Sha Tin Town Hall. The ones in Tuen Mu...

The government on Saturday locked down a residential building at an estate in Sha Tin after tests found Covid-19 in sewage samples from the area. Officials moved in at Mau Chuen House on the Shui Chuen O Estate at about 6.30pm, with residents told t...

Police arrested a man on Saturday on suspicion of starting a fire at a Covid-19 testing station Tai Wai. Officers said they they received a report about the suspected arson at a testing point outside San Fong House in Sun Chui Estate at around 4.45p...

Officials said on Saturday that they're taking steps to reduce a bottleneck in taking Covid patients to hospitals and isolation facilities while also setting a higher threshold for mandatory testing as the SAR's biggest Covid wave continues. Amid co...

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...