Home Affairs Secretary Caspar Tsui on Sunday said he hopes to double his efforts in serving the public, as he apologised once again for joining a birthday banquet amid Hong Kong's Omicron outbreak. Chief Executive Carrie Lam had said she was highly...

A medical expert advising the government on its coronavirus strategy said on Sunday that officials are in talks with universities about letting medical students work at vaccination centres to tackle a shortage of staff and boost vaccine take-up. Pr...

Lawmakers have called on the government to provide subsidies to businesses and workers hit by anti-epidemic measures, in order to tide them over the Chinese New Year. The Liberal Party's Tommy Cheung told a Commercial Radio programme on Sunday that ...

The MTR Corporation has told its staff they won't be allowed to enter the company's premises if they haven't had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine by February 23. The rail operator said on Sunday that the requirement applies to all staff members,...

Health officials on Sunday said no new cases had been found at the three overnight lockdowns at residential blocks in North Point, Causeway Bay, and Tung Chung. The Covid testing exercises - prompted by three preliminary positive cases that may inv...

The government locked down residential blocks in North Point, Causeway Bay and Tung Chung on Saturday evening. The testing notices for Block B of Flora Garden at Cloud View Road and Tower 1 of Jupiter Terrace at Jupiter Street, and Shun Yat House i...

Health officials said a supermarket worker who caught Covid-19 from an unknown source may be infected with the Omicron variant. She was among the 37 newly confirmed cases announced on Saturday. Authorities said the 58-year-old Covid patient had a r...

The District Court on Saturday jailed 21 people who were found guilty of taking part in a riot in Sheung Wan two years ago. They were given prison sentences of between 30 and 42 months for rioting in the area between Western Street and Queen Street...

Police said on Saturday that they had arrested eight more staff members of a foster home in Prince Edward over allegations of abuse. Officers said the latest arrests came after they reviewed more security camera footage recorded between September a...

Health officials said on Saturday that a contaminated swab might have led to the preliminary positive Covid-19 test result of an RTHK host, and further tests showed she was not infected after all. She was at a party hosted by National People's Cong...

More senior government officials have apologised for attending a party with over a hundred guests where they were exposed to people infected with Covid-19. The undersecretary for innovation and technology, David Chung, and the political assistant t...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Saturday said the government will consider ordering close-contacts of confirmed Covid-19 cases to be isolated at home instead of sending them into quarantine camps if the facilities become too overwhelmed. Her commen...

The Civil Engineering and Development Department has confirmed that the head of its Sustainable Lantau Office, Michael Fong, had joined a gathering on a yacht on Friday. The department said a total of 22 people were on the boat, and they had kept t...

The government said on Saturday it had found no new cases of coronavirus after overnight lockdowns of residential buildings in Wan Chai, Happy Valley, Ho Man Tin and Causeway Bay. . A government spokesman said that about 80 residents had been tested ...

The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, said a thorough probe will be conducted to find out whether top government officials, who were at a large-scale birthday party which saw several attendees testing positive for Covid-19, had broken the rules. In a st...

The government has on Friday locked down four residential buildings in Wan Chai, Happy Valley, Ho Man Tin and Causeway Bay as part of efforts to rein in the spread of Covid-19. A government spokesman said all residents of Lee Shun Building on Lockh...

Health authorities on Friday said everyone who attended a birthday banquet at the centre of a growing Covid-19 scare – including about a dozen senior officials and 19 lawmakers – will be sent to the Penny's Bay Quarantine Centre after a second at...

The Insurance Authority said on Friday that it has appointed accountancy firm Deloitte to take control of Target Insurance, a listed firm that owns around 60 percent of policies in the local taxi market. The regulator said four other insurance compa...

An RTHK programme host has tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The broadcaster said it was informed of the case on Friday morning by the host who works for its Putonghua channel. RTHK said she had hosted a show at one of its studios in the pa...

All same-day tickets were snapped up in half an hour on Friday at a Covid-19 mobile vaccination station at Wong Tai Sin Temple Square offering the BioNTech vaccine to members of the public over the next three days. More than 100 people had queued up...