The government announced on Friday that the slaughtering of livestock at the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse will be suspended from midnight Saturday, after over a hundred Covid-19 infections have been reported at the abattoir. In a statement, authoriti...

Police said on Friday that they had arrested nine people in connection with online love scams targeting men. Officers said the suspects were four males and five females aged between 15 and 69. They were arrested in various districts on Wednesday a...

A Kwun Tong public housing block was locked down on Friday for its residents to be tested for Covid, after sewage samples there were found to contain the virus. Health officials moved into Sau Wah House at Sau Mau Ping Estate at 4:30pm. They said t...

Authorities on Friday reported 21,979 new Covid-19 notification cases and 47 deaths. All but four of the new cases are local infections. The new "notification figure" adds up all the cases the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) has been informed ...

Health officials on Friday found 461 suspected Covid-19 cases after sealing off residential blocks in Cheung Sha Wan, Kwun Tong and Tseung Kwan O overnight. Among the preliminary positive cases, 228 are from Lai Pak House at Lai Tsui Court, 216 are ...

Commerce Secretary Edward Yau on Friday stressed the importance of upgrading the tourism industry to prepare for an eventual border reopening. In the financial secretary’s latest budget, HK$1.26 billion has been earmarked for boosting the tourism...

The chairman of the Hospital Authority, Henry Fan, said on Friday that he hopes the central government will send at least 1,000 medical staff to the city to help fight the Covid-19 outbreak. He made the call in an interview with the Global Times, a...

Fatality rates from Covid-19 are lower when temperatures are warmer, according to a study published by the City University of Hong Kong. The team, led by Sean Yuan, an assistant professor in biomedical sciences, examined data collected in eight Euro...

The Foreign Ministry’s office in Hong Kong on Friday strongly condemned and firmly rejected the UK government’s decision to expand the so-called “lifeboat scheme” that provides a route to British citizenship for younger Hongkongers. The sche...

Hongkong Post said on Friday that it has temporarily closed the General Post Office in Central as well as Kowloon East Post Office, due to preliminary positive Covid infections among staff. The General Post Office will remain closed until Saturday,...

The government says it has identified two more sites for the construction of community isolation and treatment facilities for Covid-19 patients. In a statement, the administration said one of the plots is lent by a private developer and is located n...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Friday said the Hong Kong government hopes quarantine-free travel between the SAR and the mainland will be allowed to resume in the middle of the year, if the Covid-19 situation is under control. Speaking on an RTHK ...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Friday said the government decided not to use the HK$10,000 consumption voucher as an incentive for vaccination, saying most of those who are not jabbed are elderly people who need financial relief. Chan had on Wedne...

National security officers on Wednesday afternoon arrested two women on suspicion of acting or attempting to act with seditious intent. The two, aged 21 and 24, were arrested under Section 9 and 10 of the Crimes Ordinance, not the national security...

The government on Thursday issued compulsory testing notices for 20 buildings across Hong Kong. Anyone who has visited any of these premises and stayed there for the length of time and on the dates specified must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19...

People who have been following the Centre for Health Protection’s (CHP) daily Covid infection numbers may have noticed the introduction of a new set of figures that authorities say paints a more accurate picture of the day-to-day situation than the...

The Secretary for the Civil Service, Patrick Nip, was on Thursday ordered by health authorities to undergo a two-week home quarantine after his wife contracted Covid-19. A spokesman from his bureau said both the minister's rapid and deep throat sali...

Health officials on Thursday evening locked down several buildings in Cheung Sha Wan, Kwun Tong and Tseung Kwan O for mass Covid-19 testing. In a statement, they said Tower 5A and 5B, Royal Diamond of the Wings II, as well as Ming Tai House at On T...

Authorities said on Thursday evening that a lockdown on a Sheung Shui building had found 95 preliminary positive Covid-19 cases. It said 2,250 people at Tin Hee House in Tin Ping Estate had been tested since the compulsory testing order was imposed...

The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Christopher Hui, on Thursday said a proposed moratorium on commercial rents would also benefit landlords. Under the plan, landlords will be banned from taking legal action against or evicting sp...