Health authorities on Tuesday reported 1,619 new coronavirus infections, as they announced that designated clinics are set to open for Covid patients in the community. As well as the confirmed infections, there are 5,400 preliminary positive cases....

Hong Kong’s Kai Tak and Lam Tsuen rivers have been ranked the 29th and 70th most polluted rivers in the world, according to a global study on pharmaceutical pollution. Scientists measured the concentration of 61 active pharmaceutical ingredients ...

Parents are rushing to have their small children inoculated with the Sinovac vaccine after the government lowered the age limit for the Covid-19 jab to three years old. Bookings for the shots opened at 8am on Tuesday. Some parents who took their ...

The government said on Tuesday that Chief Secretary John Lee is undergoing home quarantine after his foreign domestic helper tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. A spokesman for Lee's office said the minister and his family had taken rapid tes...

The government said on Tuesday that 11 people had tested preliminary positive during an overnight lockdown of a public housing block in Aberdeen. Authorities completed its mass testing of Wah Yu House of Wah Fu Estate at around noon on Tuesday, hav...

The Consumer Council said on Tuesday that more than half of the rice noodles it tested recently contained different nutrients to those declared on their packaging. The council said it tested 30 rice noodle samples, including vermicelli, mixian and T...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday unveiled plans to house infected Covid-19 patients in newly built public housing flats and hotels, which can provide up to 13,000 units in total. Speaking ahead of the weekly Executive Council meeting, Lam said...

A public health expert with the Chinese University on Tuesday urged the government to consider letting private laboratories help with conducting confirmatory tests, as a backlog in such testing is leading to a delay in the confirmation of Covid-19 in...

The government on Monday evening issued a compulsory testing notice (CTN) ordering people who had visited 21 specified premises to get tested for Covid. The affected buildings are spread all over Hong Kong from Aberdeen to Tin Shui Wai. But CTNs hav...

Tin Shui Wai Hospital on Monday evening made an appeal for the public to help locate a Covid-19 patient. A spokesman said the 48-year-old man was being transferred from Pok Oi Hospital to continue his treatment under isolation, but he ran away when...

Health officials on Monday evening locked down a block in Wah Fu Estate for mass testing, after a preliminary positive case was detected there, and traces of Covid-19 were found in sewage samples. A spokesman said people living in Wah Yu House are ...

Hong Kong will need Beijing’s support to run more temporary laboratories for Covid-19 tests, the chairman of a testing contractor in Hong Kong said on Monday. Anthony Wu, chairman of Sunrise Diagnostic Centre, made the comment as a mobile “Fire ...

The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Edward Yau, said on Monday that RTHK is taking on a larger role in the fight against the pandemic. Yau told a Legco panel meeting that the public broadcaster has already stepped up its coverage in...

Organisers of the Gay Games announced on Monday that it will split next year’s events, and let Mexico host some events that were originally going to be staged in Hong Kong. They said the decision to let Hong Kong and the city of Guadalajara co-ho...

Hong Kong's surging number of coronavirus cases has reached a new record daily high of 2,071, with this figure set to more than double on Tuesday thanks to over 4,500 preliminary positive cases. Of the confirmed cases reported on Monday, all but 19 ...

The Education Bureau will extend the suspension of face-to-face classes for another two weeks until March 6 as a result of the ongoing Covid outbreak. It covers kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, as well as private tutorial schools. Mos...

A man accused of encouraging people to spread Covid has missed a court appearance, after prosecutors said he suspected he might have been infected. Chung Chi-chiu was due in Eastern Court on Monday. The 32-year-old electrical appliance repairer h...

Various public services were disrupted on Monday after more government staff contracted Covid-19. The Immigration Department said its hotline is suspended because an officer responsible for answering call is suspected to have been infected. The ser...

The government on Monday extended the lockdown of a public housing block in Sha Tin for another day, after a mass testing operation overnight found 44 coronavirus infections. Lee Shing House on Lee On Estate has been sealed off since Sunday evening ...

Police have charged a man for murdering his friend in Wong Tai Sin last week. The 59-year-old will be brought to the Kowloon City Court for mention on Monday afternoon. He's also facing two drug-related charges. The suspect was arrested on Friday...