Five residential blocks in Tuen Mun, Ho Man Tin and Wong Tai Sin were placed under overnight lockdowns on Saturday, after sewage samples there tested positive for Covid-19. Block One of Tsui Ning Garden, Wai Tung House at Tung Tau (II) Estate, Shun...

A 23-year-old man who faces a charge of attempted murder appeared in Eastern Court on Saturday for Wednesday's attack on an elderly man at Pacific Place Mall in Admiralty. The defendant, who is a delivery man, has been accused of severely injuring ...

Construction is complete for another isolation facility near the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which will receive Covid patients with no or mild symptoms from Saturday. It is one of the facilities Beijing is helping to build amid the current wave ...

Health officials on Saturday found almost a thousand preliminary positive Covid cases during overnight lockdowns of six buildings in Tuen Mun, Tsing Yi, Kwun Tong, Sham Shui Po, Ho Man Tin and Wong Tai Sin. The blocks were cordoned off on Friday aft...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Saturday warned that the fifth Covid wave may not have peaked yet, even though health experts have suggested otherwise. Speaking at her daily pandemic press briefing, Lam said it would take a few days before a judgemen...

Government expert advisor David Hui said on Saturday that he believes the current Covid wave has already peaked, but it would be wrong to say that the epidemic is under control. The Chinese University professor made the comment as Hong Kong's daily...

A senior Beijing official who oversees Hong Kong affairs has told the SAR to beef up its effort in the fight against the Omicron outbreak. Xia Baolong, the director of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, was on Friday quoted b...

A vice-president of Beijing’s top think tank on Hong Kong said on Friday that Beijing is not pleased with the Hong Kong government’s performance in handling the Covid-19 outbreak, saying its failure to tackle the epidemic might affect national pr...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) on Friday said they had found evidence, for the first time, that pet hamsters can contract Covid-19 and pass it to humans – which they said was a likely cause of an outbreak of the Delta variant in...

Health authorities on Friday reported 29,381 new Covid-19 infections and almost 300 deaths, but said there appear to be signs that Hong Kong's outbreak is now under control. Officials said 18,888 of the new infections were confirmed by laboratories ...

The government on Friday cordoned off several blocks in Tsing Yi, Tuen Mun, Ho Man Tin, Kwun Tong, Wong Tai Sin and Sham Shui Po for compulsory Covid testing of residents, after sewage samples from the buildings tested positive for the coronavirus. ...

Health officials on Friday said about 880 people tested preliminary positive for Covid-19 in a series of overnight lockdown operations in various districts. Two buildings in Diamond Hill and Ho Man Tin – Fu Yan House in Fu Shan Estate and Tak Man...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Friday said more has to be done to boost Hong Kong's vaccination rate, with the focus on inoculating the elderly and children. Speaking at her daily pandemic press briefing, Lam said a low vaccination rate among elderly...

Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday that Beijing is following developments in Hong Kong's Covid situation on a daily basis, and it fully supports the SAR government’s decision to postpone the chief executive election. Speaking at a press conference ...

Security Secretary Chris Tang said on Friday that a Hong Kong resident who refused to go to an isolation facility after testing positive for Covid in a rapid test may be prosecuted. Tang said officials on Thursday visited 79 infected people who were...

Police on Friday laid a holding charge against a 23-year-old man on one count of attempted murder. The man was arrested in Mui Wo on Thursday in connection with an attack on an elderly man at the Pacific Place mall in Admiralty. Officers said they...

Social-welfare lawmaker, Tik Chi-yuen, says a closed-loop system to prevent Covid infections in nursing homes needs to have 100 percent participation from residents and staff, otherwise it's "meaningless". The government on Wednesday announced a so...

A group representing the employers of foreign helpers says it's troublesome to find affordable quarantine hotels for them. Betty Yung, chairperson of the Hong Kong Employers of Domestic Helpers Association, was commenting after the government redep...

Several new mobile specimen collection stations will start operating from Friday as part of government efforts to boost testing capacity. They are located at the open plaza of Kai Tak Station Square, Cheung Sha Wan Playground, Tsuen King Circuit Spo...

The Labour Department has expressed its sympathies to the family of a woman who died while working at a plastic recycling yard in Yuen Long on Thursday. The woman was trapped by the revolving spirals of a plastic crushing machine and certified dead...