The District Court on Saturday sentenced nine people to up to three years and four months in prison, after they were convicted of rioting near Polytechnic University in November 2019. The defendants, aged between 20 and 29, were charged with rioting...

A medical expert on Saturday advised the government to review its coronavirus measures according to the characteristics of the Omicron variant, saying that tables at restaurants must be spaced apart and the usage of partition boards should be scrappe...

Civil service chief Patrick Nip on Saturday said some vaccination centres will be used for the sole purpose of vaccinating children aged between five and 11 with the BioNTech jab. Speaking on a radio show, Nip – who is in charge of the city's ino...

Health officials ended an overnight lockdown at a residential block in Tseung Kwan O on Saturday morning having tested about 1,110 people, with no new Covid-19 cases found. The government ordered the tests at Tower 4 of Bauhinia Garden on Tong Chun ...

Authorities have locked down a housing block in Tseung Kwan O on Friday night, after a resident tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. Those living in Tower 4 of Bauhinia Garden on Tong Chun Street need to get tested overnight and stay in their ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Friday that the current anti-pandemic restrictions in place will be extended for another two weeks to February 3, which is the third day of the Chinese New Year. The measures include a ban on night-time dinin...

The Social Welfare Department (SWD) says it will on Monday send a special team to a foster home at the centre of child abuse allegations, to "closely monitor" its operations. The team - comprised of social workers, nurses and child care experts - w...

Health authorities on Friday said a security guard at the Penny’s Bay quarantine camp, who is the colleague of another guard who was recently infected with Covid-19, has also tested preliminary positive for the virus. Chuang Shuk-kwan from the Ce...

The government said on Friday that the lockdown of a building in Tuen Mun took longer than expected, because one person's Covid-19 test came back as "indeterminate". Block 2 of Hoi Tak Gardens on Wing Fat Lane was sealed off for overnight testing ...

Customs officers say they arrested five men after seizing 35 tonnes of frozen meat on a boat in waters off Lantau on Thursday. Officers said on Friday that they suspect the HK$5.2 million haul, which included pig maw and tripe, was being smuggled to...

A specialist in respiratory medicine said on Friday that Hong Kong's current social distancing rules should be extended. Dr Leung Chi-chiu said people should continue to stay home as much as possible and avoid visiting high-risk places to prevent a ...

Health authorities lifted an overnight lockdown at a building in Tuen Mun on Friday morning, finding no new cases after testing about 380 residents at JC Place Tower 1 in Castle Peak Bay. A second overnight testing operation at Block 2 of Hoi Tak G...

Four doctors who treated a man who tested positive for Covid after being involved in a traffic accident were sent to quarantine on Thursday, while three patients who were in the same cubicle at an intensive care unit have been moved to isolation ward...

The Airport Authority said on Thursday Hong Kong will ban the transit of flight passengers from more than 100 countries and territories from Sunday amid the spread of the Omicron variant. It said the new rule applies to passengers who've been in mor...

The government on Thursday evening locked down two residential blocks in Tuen Mun – the homes of two nurses working in clinics in the district who have tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. Testing has been ordered for residents of JC Place To...

Two nurses who worked at the same clinics in Tuen Mun have tested preliminary positive for Covid-19 and officials are investigating if there was silent transmission there. They were among fewer than 10 preliminary-positive cases reported by health a...

Researchers at Polytechnic University on Thursday said they have created a 3-D printing material that can kill bacteria and viruses, including the coronavirus. They said the material - made with resin and anti-viral agents, can pierce the cell memb...

Moon Palace Restaurant, which was recently hit by a Covid outbreak, reopened on Thursday after shutting down for a fortnight. The restaurant in Kowloon Tong said it was informed by the Centre for Health Protection on Wednesday that it could resume b...

Key figures of the arts, culture and sport sectors on Thursday called on the government to partially re-open premises, saying their abrupt closure last week because of the Omicron variant left many workers with no income. At a press conference organ...

A pharmacists' group is calling on the government to allocate money under the anti-epidemic fund to help pay for the delivery of medicine to people in need. The Practising Pharmacists Association of Hong Kong said it has been providing medicine cou...