A cleaner who works at the Chief Executive’s Office on Friday tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. It is the second such infection reported from Carrie Lam's office in four days. In a statement, the office said the contract cleaner last atte...

Officials on Friday said they are hoping to move all patients waiting outside accident and emergency departments inside within the day, as they announced 3,629 newly confirmed Covid cases and another 10 deaths. A general manager with the Hospital Au...

The government on Friday extended the lockdown of a residential block in Shek Kip Mei for a second day. A mass Covid-19 testing exercise at Mei Wui House in Shek Kip Mei Estate found 70 preliminary positive cases, while eight results were uncertain....

Health officials said on Friday they've picked up 80 preliminary Covid cases in a two-day lockdown of a public housing estate in Tung Chung. They were among around 6,000 residents tested in Mun Wo House of Mun Tung Estate since Wednesday. The gover...

An elderly care home operator on Friday defended the decision of some homes to refuse to take back Covid patients ready to be discharged from hospital, saying accepting them could expose other residents to infection. Grace Li, the chief executive o...

RTHK on Friday learnt that the Caritas Medical Centre will be using its general out-patient clinic area to house some Covid-19 patients waiting for treatment. The news came after patients had to wait outdoors for long hours at several hospitals bef...

Health authorities say they have found 64 preliminary positive Covid cases during a two-day lockdown of a public housing block in Ma On Shan and residents in the clear are now allowed to leave their homes again. The lockdown of Yiu Ping House in Yi...

A special taxi fleet tasked with transporting Covid patients with mild symptoms to and from designated public clinics saw huge demand on its first day of operation on Friday. Patients with appointments at one of seven Hospital Authority clinics can ...

The government has been urged to consider using trains to transport food from Guangdong, after more cross-border truck drivers came down with Covid-19 and their colleagues were put into quarantine. The proposal was made on an RTHK programme on Frid...

Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip on Friday made an appeal for private doctors and clinics to join the Covid-19 vaccination programme. Speaking on an RTHK programme, the minister in charge of the inoculation drive said authorities will streamline...

Hong Kong’s sole deputy to the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, Tam Yiu-chung, has urged the SAR to be more flexible in its anti-epidemic work as he renewed his call for the Chief Executive election to be postponed in light of the C...

Top epidemiologist, Benjamin Cowling, on Friday said Hong Kong should change its strategy to allow Covid patients to isolate at home. Professor Cowling, from the University of Hong Kong's School of Public Health, said he was very concerned about se...

The government on Thursday evening issued compulsory testing notices (CTNs) ordering people who had visited 27 specified places to get tested for Covid. The affected buildings include five residential blocks in Tin Shui Wai, four in Yuen Long, and t...

A hotel in Tsuen Wan will from Friday begin operating as an isolation facility to house Covid-19 patients with no or mild symptoms. Dorsett Tsuen Wan, the first to be converted under the government's Community Isolation Facility Hotel Scheme, had ju...

The Fire Services Department said on Thursday that its ambulance crews are extremely stretched due to the current wave of Covid-19 infections. Assistant director Ng Hau-ming said officers from different teams have been drafted in to help, and a comm...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday the government will consider rolling out city-wide Covid-19 testing when relevant capabilities are ramped up with the support from mainland authorities. She was speaking to reporters after welcoming mainla...

The government on Thursday locked down a public housing block in Shek Kip Mei after sewage samples there tested positive for Covid-19. Residents and recent visitors of Mei Wui House at Shek Kip Mei Estate must get tested and stay at home. The gov...

The government on Thursday extended the lockdown of a residential block in Tung Chung for a second day. A mass Covid-19 testing exercise at Mun Wo House in Mun Tung Estate found 68 suspected cases and three undetermined ones. Residents must get te...

Health authorities on Thursday reported 6,116 new coronavirus infections and 24 more deaths, as they further relaxed the discharge criteria for Covid patients in isolation facilities in the hope of freeing up places. The city also has another 6,300 ...

Authorities on Thursday said they have uncovered 48 preliminary positive Covid cases as they wrapped up a two-day lockdown of a building in Sheung Shui.   An indeterminate case was also detected after residents of Ching Long House in Ching Ho Estate...