Hong Kong on Friday reported 52,523 new coronavirus cases and 188 Covid-related deaths. The daily infection figures exceeded the 50,000 mark for the third consecutive day, but the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said the outbreak had not peaked y...

Hong Kong is facing an exodus of skilled professionals on a scale not seen since the early 1990s, the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce warned on Friday. The business group conducted a survey in January, involving 220 firms. It showed nearly f...

The annual session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference opened in Beijing on Friday, with chairman Wang Yang encouraging the members from Hong Kong to support the SAR's improved electoral system. In his work report, Wang also sa...

The government says parts of the Kai Tak cruise terminal will be turned into an isolation and holding centre for elderly Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms. Labour and welfare chief Law Chi-kwong said on Friday that it will also house those who h...

The government on Friday cordoned off two public housing blocks in Kowloon City after sewage samples taken from the buildings tested positive for Covid-19. A government spokesman said authorities suspect some of the residents of Tak Shan House and ...

Authorities on Friday discovered 1,016 preliminary positive Covid cases following lockdown operations at five residential blocks in Sha Tin, Tsing Yi, Tin Shui Wai, Kowloon City and Kwai Chung. Of the five buildings, Yiu Tai House at Tin Yiu (II) Es...

Chief Secretary John Lee on Friday exempted a mainland company and its workers from having to comply with Hong Kong laws as they construct an emergency hospital and Covid isolation facility at the Lok Ma Chau Loop. Lee exercised his authority under ...

The MTR on Friday announced further adjustments to its services, as it continues to face a manpower shortage and drop in passenger numbers. The railway operator said that compared to normal services, there will be an additional waiting time for tra...

A government vaccine adviser, Lau Yu-lung, said on Friday that elderly care home residents should be vaccinated even if they have already been infected with Covid. Lau’s University of Hong Kong colleague, microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung, said on Th...

The minister in charge of Hong Kong's vaccination drive, Patrick Nip, says from Saturday, people aged 60 and above will be able to book a booster shot only three months after their second dose. Government expert advisers had earlier recommended shor...

A new vaccination centre offering Sinovac jabs to children, and people aged 60 and above, will start operating in Cheung Sha Wan from Monday. The centre, at Hong Kong Spinners Industrial Building, can provide 2,000 doses each day to children aged b...

The Correctional Services Department (CSD) said on Thursday that around 1,000 people in custody had tested positive for Covid-19 in the past two weeks, and a growing number of staff falling ill have also put facilities under stress. In a statement,...

A senior mainland health official, Liang Wannian, said on Thursday that he's in Hong Kong to give advice but the decision making on anti-Covid strategy lies with the SAR government. The expert from the National Health Commission has been in town si...

The government on Thursday condemned people who spread rumours that the Tsing Yi isolation facility hospital is equipped with toilets without partitions. In a statement issued in the evening, a spokesman for the Security Bureau (SB) noted there are ...

Top microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung says conducting universal Covid testing in Hong Kong at this stage “wouldn’t be very helpful”, as he joined other experts in suggesting that the exercise should only be conducted after the current outbreak peak...

Hong Kong on Thursday recorded 56,827 new reports of Covid infections - the highest daily count so far - as authorities said the cumulative death toll in the Omicron outbreak has surged past 1,000. The Hospital Authority (HA) said 144 Covid patients...

Authorities have placed five buildings, in Yuen Long, Tsing Yi, Sha Tin, Kwai Chung and Kowloon City, under overnight lockdown after sewage samples from the blocks tested positive for Covid. Yiu Tai House at Tin Yiu (II) Estate, Block 6 of Mayfair G...

More than 900 preliminary positive coronavirus infections were found in a series of overnight lockdowns at housing blocks in Tsing Yi, Fo Tan, Yuen Long, Kai Tak and Kwun Tong. Yiu Shing House of Tin Yiu Estate in Yuen Long saw the highest Covid-pos...

A group of lawmakers said on Thursday that they are launching their own support hotline for Covid-19 patients, after they received complaints from citizens that they were unable to get through on a hotline provided by the government. Medical sector...

The government says it has no plan to further postpone the Chief Executive election beyond May 8. The poll, originally slated for March 27, had been postponed by Chief Executive Carrie Lam by invoking the Emergency Ordinance so the administration c...