Lawmakers and people who have worked with Caspar Tsui on Monday expressed understanding and sadness over his decision to resign as home affairs secretary after getting caught up in a scandal over a Covid-hit birthday party. Tsui’s partymate, DAB c...

The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, said on Monday that Caspar Tsui's resignation as the home affairs minister is a testimony to the spirit of the administration’s political accountability system. Tsui was among a number of officials and lawmakers wh...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says Hong Kong is "set to usher in a brighter future" in the Year of the Tiger, following a year of success in maintaining the city's stability. In a minute-long video released on Monday, the CE expressed confidence in th...

Caspar Tsui resigned as home affairs secretary on Monday, saying he had behaved inappropriately by attending a party earlier this month as Hong Kong was bracing for a new wave of Covid infections. Tsui was one of a number of officials and lawmakers ...

A medical expert advising the government says Covid-19 should only be treated as an endemic disease when the fatality rate becomes comparable to flu and when at least 90 percent of the population is vaccinated. Lau Yu-lung said on Monday that histo...

Health authorities may in future call up people who need to be tested for Covid-19 or sent into quarantine using contact information provided in the LeaveHomeSafe app. Secretary for Innovation and Technology Alfred Sit said on Monday that operators...

Health officials on Monday said a resident of Shek Wah House in Kwai Chung's Shek Lei (II) Estate has tested preliminary positive for Covid during an overnight lockdown, while a separate lockdown in To Kwa Wan found no cases. Shek Wah House, where a...

Health officials on Sunday launched an overnight lockdown and testing operations covering four adjacent tenement buildings in To Kwa Wan and, separately, a residential block in Kwai Chung. People at 18 and 20 Yin On Street and 17 and 19 Tsun Fat Str...

Respiratory medicine expert David Hui says the government’s planned “vaccine pass” may have to cover public transport and other crowded places like malls or supermarkets, but he warned against relaxing social-distancing measures too soon. “A...

Hong Kong reported 77 new local coronavirus cases on Sunday, among them 15 were untraceable. The Centre for Health Protection’s Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan said the patients who were infected by unknown sources live in various districts, including Tuen M...

The government on Sunday said it’s not against the law to “discuss views” on the effectiveness of its policies against Covid-19, as it stressed that “dynamic clearance” is the most effective way to cope with the pandemic. In a statement, ...

Health minister Sophia Chan on Sunday urged people to cut down on gatherings over the Lunar New Year holiday and use virtual communications to send season's greetings. "The year of Tiger is fast approaching. Because of the pandemic, we have to stri...

The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Law Chi-kwong, said on Sunday that the severe shortage of foreign domestic helpers may ease next month, when more of them can come to Hong Kong after the quarantine period is shortened from 21 days to 14. Writi...

Almost 70 percent of Hong Kong people support the government’s “dynamic clearance” strategy against the new wave of Covid-19 outbreaks, a survey has found. The think tank Bauhinia Institute said it interviewed around a thousand people between...

Officials lifted overnight lockdowns in Tung Chung and Kwai Chung on Sunday morning, and said no positive cases were found. They said they tested 890 people for Covid-19 in a lockdown of Tower 16 of Crystal Cove in Caribbean Coast after Covid cases ...

The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department announced on Saturday that most local pet shops that sell hamsters would be allowed to resume business from Sunday after tests for Covid-19 in their animals and premises came back negative. Shop...

A hospital in Wong Tai Sin ordered one of its doctors to quarantine on Saturday after a woman who attended its outpatient clinic tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The 73-year-old woman went to Our Lady of Maryknoll Hospital on Friday, compla...

Health officials moved in at residential block in Tung Chung and Kwai Chung on Saturday night for overnight lockdown and testing operations, after residents tested preliminary positive for a mutant strain of Covid-19. Residents of Tower 16 at Crysta...

Health officials reported 120 new Covid infections on Saturday, with 86 of the new infections locally transmitted. New cases are still emerging from the virus-stricken Kwai Chung Estate, even as the extended lockdowns over three buildings in the e...

The District Court on Saturday found a man guilty of rioting and assaulting a police officer during a protest outside the Tuen Mun Town Hall on National Day in 2019, but acquitted two others of joining an unlawful assembly. Yip Ho-hin, 23, was conv...