Health authorities have discovered 259 preliminary positive Covid infections following an overnight lockdown of a Kwun Tong public housing block. Sau Wah House at Sau Mau Ping Estate was cordoned off on Friday afternoon, after sewage samples there ...

A man has died in a traffic accident on the North Lantau Highway. The 64-year-old had been driving a light goods vehicle towards Tung Chung at about 7.30 pm on Friday, when he reportedly hit a special purpose vehicle near the Lantau Link Plaza and ...

The official leading Hong Kong's vaccination drive, Patrick Nip, says he expects it to be a matter of a few days before the SAR records 90 percent of its population as having had their first Covid jab. The Civil Service Bureau secretary said reachi...

Health officials closed 19 mobile Covid testing stations around town on Saturday, as Hong Kong shifted its testing strategy to cope with the surge of infections of recent weeks. To relieve the burden on overwhelmed public laboratories, the governme...

Hongkong Post said on Saturday that three post offices will close until March 1 for disinfection, after a number of staff tested preliminary positive for Covid. The affected buildings are Discovery Bay Post Office, Cheung Sha Wan Post Office, and W...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Saturday that the government was planning to offer interest-free loans to small landlords, who will be affected by his proposed moratorium on commercial rents. Under Chan’s latest budget, landlords will be ba...

Government vaccine advisor Ivan Hung says Covid vaccinations should be mandatory, especially the elderly, and that the key to fighting Omicron was being triple jabbed. Speaking on a radio show on Saturday, Hung said Hong Kong was now racing against ...

The Centre for Health Protection on Friday said scheduled testing, concerning specified places as announced on or after 21 February, had been cancelled. The move came as the government on Friday said it would start distributing rapid antigen test (R...

Authorities on Friday gazetted amended employment laws which will require employers to grant paid sick leave to staff who are absent from work due to the government's Covid-control measures, and make it illegal for them to dismiss these workers for t...

The government said Financial Secretary Paul Chan will work from home until Sunday after a domestic helper at his official residence tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. A spokesperson for his office said on Friday that the test results of Cha...

Health officials on Friday said people who test positive for Covid-19 with rapid test kits will no longer need to submit a deep throat saliva sample for confirmation. That's part of a major change in the government's testing strategy as officials st...

The government has imposed lockdowns on two buildings in Tseung Kwan O and Kwun Tong, requiring residents to get tested for Covid-19 overnight. Authorities sealed off Block 5 of On Ning Garden in Tseung Kwan O on Friday night, saying preliminary po...

The government said the slaughtering of livestock at the Sheung Shui and Tseun Wan slaughterhouses will be suspended from midnight on Friday, as a result of dozens of Covid-19 infections at the abattoirs. In a statement, authorities said the two sl...

Police said on Friday that they had arrested nine people in connection with online love scams targeting men. Officers said the suspects were four males and five females aged between 15 and 69. They were arrested in various districts on Wednesday a...

A Kwun Tong public housing block was locked down on Friday for its residents to be tested for Covid, after sewage samples there were found to contain the virus. Health officials moved into Sau Wah House at Sau Mau Ping Estate at 4:30pm. They said t...

Authorities on Friday reported 21,979 new Covid-19 notification cases and 47 deaths. All but four of the new cases are local infections. The new "notification figure" adds up all the cases the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) has been informed ...

Health officials on Friday found 461 suspected Covid-19 cases after sealing off residential blocks in Cheung Sha Wan, Kwun Tong and Tseung Kwan O overnight. Among the preliminary positive cases, 228 are from Lai Pak House at Lai Tsui Court, 216 are ...

Commerce Secretary Edward Yau on Friday stressed the importance of upgrading the tourism industry to prepare for an eventual border reopening. In the financial secretary’s latest budget, HK$1.26 billion has been earmarked for boosting the tourism...

The chairman of the Hospital Authority, Henry Fan, said on Friday that he hopes the central government will send at least 1,000 medical staff to the city to help fight the Covid-19 outbreak. He made the call in an interview with the Global Times, a...

Fatality rates from Covid-19 are lower when temperatures are warmer, according to a study published by the City University of Hong Kong. The team, led by Sean Yuan, an assistant professor in biomedical sciences, examined data collected in eight Euro...