Labour and welfare chief Law Chi-kwong said on Monday that he’s “quite confident” that the hiring and training process for local and mainland temporary carers will be completed in the next week or two, so the recruits can start looking after el...

The government on Monday reported 621 preliminary positive Covid-19 cases after testing around 5,422 people during overnight lockdowns of six residential buildings in Tuen Mun, Wong Tai Sin and Kwun Tong. Residents were ordered to stay home and get ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Monday that she’s been assured by authorities in Shenzhen that supplies to Hong Kong won’t be affected even though the mainland city is being locked down for mass testing after a surge in Covid-19 cases there. ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said hundreds of medical personnel from the mainland will arrive in Hong Kong from Monday to help treat Covid-19 patients. Lam told a daily press briefing that the mainland health workers are coming at the request of the S...

Civil service chief Patrick Nip said a new vaccination facility dedicated to students will open this week at Leighton Centre in Causeway Bay, in a bid to boost the vaccine takeup among young people. From Wednesday, the new facility – located on t...

Medical experts on Monday said they expect the number of Covid-19 infections in Hong Kong to remain high for some weeks, with one saying the daily caseloads will probably only drop to around a thousand in late May. Kwok Kin-on, public health and pr...

Health officials on Monday found 41 preliminary positive Covid cases following an overnight lockdown at Block 3 of Tsui Ning Garden in Tuen Mun. With 704 people tested, the figure amounts to just under 6 percent of the block. On Sunday, Hong Kong r...

The Observatory on Monday said, according to its initial analysis, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake jolted Hong Kong at 2.29am. It said the epicentre was about 92 kilometres east-northeast of the SAR, near the south-east coast of the mainland. The Observ...

Businesses hit hard by the government’s latest Covid-19 restrictions have on Sunday joined hands to support the Financial Secretary’s three-month rent relief proposal, saying the arrangement is urgently needed to help them ride out the current cr...

Hong Kong on Sunday logged a total of 32,430 Covid-19 cases and 190 Covid-related deaths, with health officials warning that the virus situation here remains severe and people should not let their guard down. Of the new cases, 13,335 were confirmed...

A group of government advisors on Covid-19 vaccination on Sunday laid down their recommendations on the number of doses of vaccine people should take after they are infected with the coronavirus. For healthy adults who were unvaccinated before the...

Labour Secretary Law Chi-kwong said on Sunday that the government has so far hired around 120 temporary carers from the mainland to look after the elderly amid the latest outbreak. The minister announced late last month that the government was hirin...

Chief Secretary John Lee on Sunday warned that authorities will take action against people who spread rumours about the government's anti-epidemic work. He was commenting on a photo circulating online which claimed that the ceiling of a toilet had ...

The government on Sunday locked down several residential blocks in Tuen Mun, Kwun Tong and Wong Tai Sin, after Covid was detected in sewage samples there. Residents of Block 3 of Tsui Ning Garden, as well as Oi Shun House and Oi Lai House of Yau Oi...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Sunday that the government believes there could be some 300,000 coronavirus patients and their family contacts currently undergoing isolation or quarantine at home. She admitted at a daily Covid briefing that auth...

Authorities said on Sunday that hundreds of coronavirus infections have been picked up from the lockdowns of several residential blocks across Hong Kong. Officials said 215 out of 1390 people tested at Oi Yee House of Yau Oi Estate in Tuen Mun came...

Health authorities on Saturday reported 27,647 new Covid-19 cases, as officials tightened rules for the registration of rapid test results in hopes of getting a more accurate picture of the latest epidemic situation. Of the new cases, 15,789 were c...

Seven residential blocks in Tuen Mun, Kwun Tong, Ho Man Tin and Wong Tai Sin were placed under overnight lockdowns on Saturday, after sewage samples there tested positive for Covid-19. Block One of Tsui Ning Garden, Wai Tung House at Tung Tau (II) ...

A 23-year-old man who faces a charge of attempted murder appeared in Eastern Court on Saturday for Wednesday's attack on an elderly man at Pacific Place Mall in Admiralty. The defendant, who is a delivery man, has been accused of severely injuring ...

Construction is complete for another isolation facility near the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which will receive Covid patients with no or mild symptoms from Saturday. It is one of the facilities Beijing is helping to build amid the current wave ...