The government on Tuesday imposed lockdowns on a few buildings in Tsing Yi, Sha Tin, Tin Shui Wai, Tung Chung and Kowloon City after sewage samples there tested positive for Covid-19. Residents of Chun Hin House at Ching Chun Court, Pok Man House a...

Hong Kong on Tuesday reported 32,597 new coronavirus cases and 172 Covid-related deaths. The infections figure is lower than the 34,466 reported on Monday, but Dr Albert Au of the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said this might be due to fewer pe...

The DAB said on Tuesday that any mass lockdown in Hong Kong should be lifted as quickly as possible, so as to minimise the impact on the public. Officials have said they won't rule out imposing a citywide lockdown during a universal Covid testing e...

One of the two largest supermarket chains in the city, ParknShop, said on Tuesday that it is shortening the opening hours of around 240 outlets in light of the Covid outbreak. The announcement came a day after rumours circulated online that ParknSho...

Chief Secretary John Lee on Tuesday hailed the speedy, seven-day construction of a new isolation facility in Tsing Yi as "miraculous", as the centre began admitting people with Covid-19 who have no or only mild symptoms. The site is the first of a n...

Education Secretary Kevin Yeung said on Tuesday that schools will be allowed to offer online activities for pupils during their early "summer break" which will begin this month. The government announced on Monday that kindergartens, primary and sec...

Innovation and technology minister Alfred Sit on Tuesday defended the authorities’ decision to stop notifying people via the LeaveHomeSafe app if they’ve been to the same places at around the same time with any Covid patients. "In the past, in ...

Health officials on Tuesday said they had picked up 1,180 preliminary Covid cases during overnight lockdowns of six housing blocks in Kwun Tong, Tsing Yi, Sha Tin, Tung Chung and Yuen Long. More than 7,910 people in Sau Yin House in Sau Mau Ping Est...

Labour secretary Law Chi-kwong says temporary workers from the mainland will hopefully arrive in Hong Kong within days to ease a manpower shortage at care homes. Speaking on a radio programme on Tuesday, Law noted half of the SAR’s care homes hav...

MTR bosses warned on Tuesday that scores of Covid infections among staff were leading to fewer trains running and the sporadic closure of some customer service centres, with the corporation facing an "enormous challenge" to keep things going. The co...

The government says hair salons forced to close under Covid-19 restrictions can apply for a one-off subsidy from next Monday, and are set to receive the cash within this month at the earliest. Salons can get up to HK$50,000, depending on how many wo...

The head of the English Schools Foundation said on Tuesday that the SAR's biggest provider of international education would have had immense difficulty providing classes in July and August had the government forced it to follow local schools in takin...

The Chief Secretary for Administration, John Lee, convened an inter-departmental meeting on Monday, to press full steam ahead with the commissioning of the community isolation facility (CIF) in Tsing Yi, and to ensure that ancillary facilities can ac...

Officials on Monday estimated that Hong Kong's population dropped by 23,600 or 0.3 percent, to 7,403,100 last year, partly due to a net outflow of 27,300 residents. But the government dismissed the idea that the territory was witnessing a tide of em...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Monday called for calm as Hongkongers descended on supermarkets across the city in preparation for a rumoured lockdown of the entire population. Earlier in the day, Health Secretary Sophia Chan said the option of a city...

A senior official from the National Health Commission, Liang Wannian, arrived in Hong Kong on Monday to help guide the administration in its handling of the Covid epidemic. Speaking outside his hotel, Liang said the central government is highly con...

Hongkongers rushed to supermarkets on Monday to stock up on food and essential items amid online rumours that one of the city's two main supermarket chains, ParkNShop, would close all its outlets from March 7 and fears of an imminent citywide lockdow...

The government on Monday imposed lockdowns on a number of buildings in Tsing Yi, Sha Tin, Tung Chung, Yuen Long and Kwun Tong, after sewage samples there tested positive for Covid-19. The buildings are Chun Ho House of Ching Chun Court, Shun Wo Hous...

Exam officials said they will make a decision by mid-May on whether to call off this year's university entrance tests as the Covid-19 outbreak continues. The Examinations and Assessment Authority announced on Monday that it will first consider whet...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Monday released a video-recorded speech reassuring people that the government will continue to mobilise all available resources to fight Covid-19, and expressing confidence that the city will overcome its hardship thanks...