Hong Kong saw 1,325 new coronavirus infections on Friday, and with over 1,500 preliminary positive cases reported for the day, health officials said the city's outbreaks have yet to peak. The number of new confirmed infections topped the previous r...

Chief Secretary John Lee and a delegation of Hong Kong ministers are set to meet mainland officials in Shenzhen on Saturday to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic, the government said. A statement said Lee, Security Secretary Chris Tang, Transport Secreta...

A former controller of the Centre for Health Protection on Friday said now is not the time to discuss whether Hong Kong should "live with Covid", saying people should instead give the government's “dynamic zero” strategy a chance. During an int...

DAB chairwoman Starry Lee on Friday welcomed news that mainland officials overseeing Hong Kong's affairs will help with anti-epidemic efforts here, saying it shows Beijing's care for the SAR. Health Secretary Sophia Chan confirmed during a Legco me...

Hongkong Post said on Friday that the Discovery Bay post office is closed and mail delivery to the community may be delayed. It said the post office will resume operation as soon as possible, after the plaza it’s located in is disinfected and reop...

Authorities on Friday said they have detected nine preliminary positive cases during the lockdown of a building in Yuen Long. More than 1,400 residents of Hung Lok House at Hung Fuk Estate were tested overnight. The block was sealed off on Thursday...

A contractor running a Covid-19 testing centre said on Friday that the new ticket-distributing system had failed to shorten queues as more people are being subject to compulsory testing orders. Chris Wong from the Hong Kong Molecular Pathology Diag...

Hong Kong’s daily Covid-19 tally is set to continue rising and hit another record high, with sources telling RTHK that the number of new infections on Friday will exceed 1,300. There were 986 cases on Thursday, all but one were local infections. ...

An expert advising the government on its Covid vaccination programme has urged authorities to drastically increase the capacity of vaccination centres and recruit as many medical personnel as it can to support them. Professor Lau Yu-lung told an RTH...

A professor of respiratory medicine says the government needs to arrange outreach teams to vaccinate the elderly against Covid in nursing homes before outbreaks at the facilities overwhelm the medical system. Kenneth Tsang from the Department of Me...

The president of the Medical Association, Choi Kin, says he's seen a lot of new patients coming to his private clinic to seek a Covid vaccination medical exemption. "About 30-40 percent of patients, who came in yesterday… were new patients, askin...

The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office on Thursday said it will hold a meeting between mainland and SAR officials in the near future on the epidemic situation in Hong Kong. On its website, a spokesperson from the office said the central government ...

The government on Thursday issued a compulsory testing notice ordering people who have visited 20 specified premises to undergo Covid-19 tests. "In view of a number of cases tested preliminarily positive / positive, 20 specified places are included ...

The government on Thursday put a public housing block in Yuen Long under lockdown after sewage samples taken from the building tested positive for Covid. Officials said they suspect there are asymptomatic patients in Hung Lok House at Hung Fuk Esta...

A government adviser on the pandemic said on Thursday that a nursing instructor may have spread Covid-19 to five elderly patients at the Caritas Medical Centre. Yuen Kwok-yung said the teacher talked a lot while in an internal ward on Monday and cou...

A government advisor on the pandemic, Gabriel Leung, has urged the government to consider putting the entire city under lockdown, saying no other social distancing measures will be able to contain the Omicron outbreaks. He did not say how long the ...

Hong Kong on Thursday reported another 986 Covid-19 infections, all but one of them locally transmitted. There were also around 800 preliminary positive cases. The Centre for Health Protection said some of the cases are linked to DB Plaza in Disco...

More government services were disrupted on Thursday as staff came down with the coronavirus. The Land Registry’s customer centre in Admiralty was closed for the day after the test result of a worker there came back preliminary positive. Limited s...

A restaurant manager has expressed concern that the upcoming "vaccine pass" requirement will spark conflict between staff and patrons. Type D restaurants – which are allowed to seat up to four people at a table – are subject to the new arrangem...

The government said on Thursday that it had found 14 preliminary positive Covid cases during an overnight lockdown on two blocks in Long Ping Estate in Yuen Long. Authorities said they had finished testing around 980 people at Cheuk Ping House, and...