The government has locked down several public housing blocks for testing after sewage samples taken from the buildings tested positive for Covid-19. They include Tip Ling House at Tuen Mun’s Butterfly Estate, Sin Sam House of Lung Hang Estate in ...

The Consumer Council on Tuesday warned that some stress-relieving toys for children that are on sale in Hong Kong contain chemicals that can cause cancer. The watchdog said it tested 29 poppit and squeeze toys bought from toy, stationery or baby pro...

Health authorities on Tuesday identified 1,261 Covid cases in the overnight lockdowns of seven public housing blocks in Tuen Mun, Sham Shui Po and Kwun Tong and Wong Tai Sin. 281 residents of Tip Mo House at Butterfly Estate tested preliminarily pos...

The head of a public doctors group, Tony Ling, said on Tuesday that he doesn't think mainland medical workers in Hong Kong will make decisions on their own when it comes to discharging Covid patients or changing their medication. He was speaking as...

A medical expert says now is not the time for Hong Kong to conduct universal Covid testing, given the current pressure on manpower and healthcare facilities. Dr Yang Lin from the School of Nursing at Polytechnic University said studies showed mass ...

A team of 75 medical workers from the mainland arrived in Hong Kong on Monday to help the SAR fight the coronavirus outbreak. They will work at the community treatment facility at the AsiaWorld-Expo on Lantau. The team’s leader, Yu Tao, said a...

A UK-based group says Hong Kong police have told it to remove its website over a potential breach of the SAR's national security law. Hong Kong Watch, which describes itself as a charity that monitors threats to basic freedoms in the city, said in ...

Hong Kong on Monday reported 249 Covid-19 deaths – the highest daily figure so far – pushing the cumulative death toll in the Omicron outbreak past 4,000. This came as the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reported 26,908 new coronavirus infect...

Labour and welfare chief Law Chi-kwong said on Monday that he’s “quite confident” that the hiring and training process for local and mainland temporary carers will be completed in the next week or two, so the recruits can start looking after el...

The government on Monday reported 621 preliminary positive Covid-19 cases after testing around 5,422 people during overnight lockdowns of six residential buildings in Tuen Mun, Wong Tai Sin and Kwun Tong. Residents were ordered to stay home and get ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Monday that she’s been assured by authorities in Shenzhen that supplies to Hong Kong won’t be affected even though the mainland city is being locked down for mass testing after a surge in Covid-19 cases there. ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said hundreds of medical personnel from the mainland will arrive in Hong Kong from Monday to help treat Covid-19 patients. Lam told a daily press briefing that the mainland health workers are coming at the request of the S...

Civil service chief Patrick Nip said a new vaccination facility dedicated to students will open this week at Leighton Centre in Causeway Bay, in a bid to boost the vaccine takeup among young people. From Wednesday, the new facility – located on t...

Medical experts on Monday said they expect the number of Covid-19 infections in Hong Kong to remain high for some weeks, with one saying the daily caseloads will probably only drop to around a thousand in late May. Kwok Kin-on, public health and pr...

Health officials on Monday found 41 preliminary positive Covid cases following an overnight lockdown at Block 3 of Tsui Ning Garden in Tuen Mun. With 704 people tested, the figure amounts to just under 6 percent of the block. On Sunday, Hong Kong r...

The Observatory on Monday said, according to its initial analysis, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake jolted Hong Kong at 2.29am. It said the epicentre was about 92 kilometres east-northeast of the SAR, near the south-east coast of the mainland. The Observ...

Businesses hit hard by the government’s latest Covid-19 restrictions have on Sunday joined hands to support the Financial Secretary’s three-month rent relief proposal, saying the arrangement is urgently needed to help them ride out the current cr...

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...