Hong Kong on Sunday logged a total of 32,430 Covid-19 cases and 190 Covid-related deaths, with health officials warning that the virus situation here remains severe and people should not let their guard down. Of the new cases, 13,335 were confirmed...

A group of government advisors on Covid-19 vaccination on Sunday laid down their recommendations on the number of doses of vaccine people should take after they are infected with the coronavirus. For healthy adults who were unvaccinated before the...

Labour Secretary Law Chi-kwong said on Sunday that the government has so far hired around 120 temporary carers from the mainland to look after the elderly amid the latest outbreak. The minister announced late last month that the government was hirin...

Chief Secretary John Lee on Sunday warned that authorities will take action against people who spread rumours about the government's anti-epidemic work. He was commenting on a photo circulating online which claimed that the ceiling of a toilet had ...

The government on Sunday locked down several residential blocks in Tuen Mun, Kwun Tong and Wong Tai Sin, after Covid was detected in sewage samples there. Residents of Block 3 of Tsui Ning Garden, as well as Oi Shun House and Oi Lai House of Yau Oi...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Sunday that the government believes there could be some 300,000 coronavirus patients and their family contacts currently undergoing isolation or quarantine at home. She admitted at a daily Covid briefing that auth...

Authorities said on Sunday that hundreds of coronavirus infections have been picked up from the lockdowns of several residential blocks across Hong Kong. Officials said 215 out of 1390 people tested at Oi Yee House of Yau Oi Estate in Tuen Mun came...

Health authorities on Saturday reported 27,647 new Covid-19 cases, as officials tightened rules for the registration of rapid test results in hopes of getting a more accurate picture of the latest epidemic situation. Of the new cases, 15,789 were c...

Seven residential blocks in Tuen Mun, Kwun Tong, 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) ...

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...