Health officials announced on Wednesday that the previous day’s sole local case was not infected with Covid-19 after all, with his positive result being blamed on contamination. The patient, a 35-year-old police constable, appeared to have snapped...

Hong Kong is poised to allow children as young as 12 to get the BioNTech vaccine, with a government adviser revealing that all members of the administration’s vaccine panel support the expansion. Chinese University professor David Hui was speaking...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has dismissed the notion that Hong Kong’s ageing population is a major social problem, saying the SAR can always adjust its demographics by moving people across the border. During a brief question-and-answer session at t...

The Hong Kong Football Club has told its employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19, warning that a failure to get jabbed without a medical exemption will see them miss out on pay rises, bonuses and even promotions. An internal memo to staff from ...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan has backed an expert committee's decision to stop reporting every death following a coronavirus jab, saying it can help people better understand the situation as they’ll only be notified about “meaningful cases”. ...

The operators of the June 4 Museum closed its doors on Wednesday, hours after officials from the Food and Environmental Hygiene department accused it of operating as a place of public entertainment without the required licences. The Hong Kong Allia...

The expert committee that looks into adverse clinical events following vaccination says it will no longer make public announcements every time a recently vaccinated person dies, instead only making a statement if there is a potential association with...

The Department of Health on Tuesday said it had received an application from Fosun Pharma on Saturday to lower the minimum age for the Comirnaty vaccine to 12, along with phase three clinical trial data. It said the information had been passed on t...

Enforcement officers turned up at the newly-reopened June Fourth Museum in Mong Kok on Tuesday, accusing the operators of running a place of public entertainment without the required licences. The enforcement action came just days before the 32nd an...

The number of people in Hong Kong who consume shark fin has more than halved over the past decade – according to a newly-released study – but researchers say more progress can be made if more people stop serving the delicacy at weddings and corpo...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is requiring all banks to "strongly encourage" their client-facing staff to get Covid-19 vaccines, saying they have to submit a list of employees who will be "expected" to get jabs by the end of the month. In ...

Hong Kong’s 38-day streak without an untraceable Covid-19 case was snapped on Tuesday, as health officials confirmed the infection of a 35-year-old police constable. The Centre for Health Protection said the officer, who lives in Yau Tong and is b...

The government has announced that people will be required to register their identity when buying pay-as-you-go mobile phone SIM cards from March next year, saying a month-long consultation showed the requirement had “strong” public backing. Secr...

A slogan often chanted at past June 4 vigils in Hong Kong may be illegal depending on the circumstances, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday, amid growing suggestions from pro-Beijing figures that calls to “end one-party rule” in China may...

The League of Social Democrats announced on Tuesday it is not going to field candidates in the upcoming election committee or Legislative Council polls, saying Hong Kong has lost a fair and just electoral system following Beijing’s overhaul. The p...

Allowing fully vaccinated senior executives of listed companies to skip quarantine when they come to Hong Kong is important for the city’s economic revival, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday. The policy, announced by the Securities and Fu...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that the government is penalising those who have not been inoculated against Covid-19 – a day after her health secretary warned that the unvaccinated may be barred from restaurants and ent...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Tuesday defended the government's plan to deny unvaccinated people from entering venues like restaurants and schools if a fifth wave of Covid-19 infections hit Hong Kong, saying the measure is not meant to divide socie...

The Law Society has condemned acts of intimidation targetting the judiciary after a judge received threatening phone calls following a case in which she jailed a group of high-profile pro-democracy figures. The society, the professional association ...

A patients' rights activist has urged the government not to implement the idea of banning unvaccinated people from venues such as restaurants and sports halls in the event of a new wave of Covid-19 infections. Alex Lam, who chairs the group Hong Kon...