Construction teams from the mainland are to build 10,000 isolation and treatment units for Covid patients at Penny's Bay and Kai Tak. Attending the groundbreaking ceremony in Penny's Bay on Saturday afternoon, the Chief Executive Carrie Lam thanked ...

Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong warned elderly care homes on Saturday that they may face consequences if they refuse to take back residents who have recovered from Covid. Health authorities had earlier criticised the actions of some care homes, say...

The chief executive of the Hospital Authority, Tony Ko, said on Saturday that most Covid patients waiting for admission outside public hospitals have now been moved indoors or to other isolation facilities. Patients had been forced to spend hours i...

Health officials on Saturday said they had uncovered 87 preliminary positive Covid cases, as they wrapped up a two-day lockdown of a public housing block in Shek Kip Mei. Authorities had sealed off Mei Wui House, on Shek Kip Mei Estate, on Thursday ...

The government on Friday issued a compulsory testing notice ordering people who have visited 30 specified premises to get tested for Covid-19. "In view of a number of cases tested preliminarily positive / positive, 30 specified places are included i...

The government on Friday ordered a public housing block in Sham Shui Po into lockdown after sewage samples taken from the building tested positive for Covid. Officials said they suspect there are asymptomatic patients in Block 21 of Shek Kip Mei est...

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department said the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse will suspend the slaughtering of live pigs on Friday for disinfection, after dozens of workers came down with Covid-19. It said in a statement that its weekly testing ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Friday that her government will strictly enforce the two-person gathering limit in public, as the Covid-19 pandemic shows no sign of abating. Speaking at a press conference announcing the postponement of the upcomi...

The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, announced on Friday that the upcoming CE election will be postponed to May 8, so that the government can focus its efforts on fighting Covid-19. A nomination period was due to begin on Sunday for the election origina...

The head of Beijing's liaison office, Luo Huining, said on Friday that confidence, unity, and action are key in the fight against Covid in Hong Kong, as major business leaders pledged to rally resources and join in the anti-epidemic effort. In a vi...

The Legislative Council passed a motion of thanks for Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s policy address on Friday after three days of debate via video conferencing. Hong Kong’s fight against Covid was a central topic of the debate, though lawmakers a...

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...