Coronavirus: Hongkonger in Hubei feeling ‘helpless’ after told family must...
Hong Kong resident Danny Leung Shun-hing and his family have been stranded in Hubei province for nearly 10 days now, first in a small village and now in a city of about 770,000. The wait has seemed...
View ArticleCoronavirus: two more cases confirmed in Hong Kong, suspected to have been...
Hong Kong has confirmed two more cases of the deadly new coronavirus, just hours after a 39-year-old man became the first to die in the city after being infected.Health officials said there was no...
View ArticleCoronavirus: top Hong Kong medical school chief questions government response...
A top medical expert in Hong Kong believes the government should have acted sooner and more decisively in its response to the coronavirus outbreak.Gabriel Leung, dean of the University of Hong Kong’s...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Carrie Lam orders Hong Kong officials not to wear masks to save...
Hong Kong’s leader has ordered government officials not to wear surgical masks except in limited circumstances, to save supplies for medical staff on the front line of the coronavirus outbreak.Chief...
View ArticleCoronavirus: are cocktail therapies for flu and HIV the magic cure? Bangkok...
Signs are emerging that a combination therapy involving cocktails of drugs meant for different ailments may be effective in combating the coronavirus outbreak around the world, with different hospitals...
View ArticleCoronavirus: newborns and cancer patients at risk as Hong Kong nurses strike...
Thousands of striking medical workers in Hong Kong were urged to return to work on Tuesday, with public hospital bosses saying newborn children and cancer patients were being put at risk by the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: casinos to close in Macau for at least two weeks after hotel...
Casinos will close for 15 days in Macau to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus after a hotel worker was locally infected, the city’s leader said on Tuesday.In a statement on Tuesday evening,...
View ArticleCoronavirus fears will further slow Hong Kong’s sluggish construction work,...
Property transactions in Hong Kong fell to a 13-month low as analysts warned the coronavirus outbreak is likely to further derail the world’s most expensive housing market.The value of all properties...
View Article‘It’s chaos’: Hong Kong’s domestic workers call for help amid coronavirus...
Hong Kong’s foreign domestic workers are growing anxious over their inability to find protective items such as face masks and hand sanitisers as the city grapples with the coronavirus outbreak. On top...
View ArticleCoronavirus: cross-border commuters fear for jobs as closure of checkpoints...
Cross-border commuters took as much as triple the time to travel to work on Tuesday after four more control points were closed to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, with some saying the measure...
View ArticleCoronavirus: officers join inmates at Hong Kong’s prison mask factory
Hong Kong prison chiefs have recruited 60 correctional workers to join inmates making face masks behind bars, to boost production to 90,000 a day as the deadly coronavirus outbreak stretches...
View ArticleCoronavirus: nervous neighbours, councillors believe brother of deceased...
A sense of panic is building at a private estate in Kowloon’s Hung Hom area, where neighbours are questioning whether everyone in close contact with the city’s first confirmed coronavirus fatality has...
View ArticleDeadly coronavirus ‘could spread widely through Hong Kong’ as three new cases...
Hong Kong could be on the verge of the deadly coronavirus spreading widely in the community, health authorities warned on Tuesday, with three new locally transmitted cases confirmed just hours after a...
View ArticleCoronavirus: 24 families in Hong Kong return from Hubei province and are...
Twenty-four families living in 14 districts across Hong Kong have become the test cases for wearing electronic tracking wristbands during quarantine at home after returning from Hubei province, the...
View ArticleChina’s home sales about to fall off a cliff as coronavirus forces shutdown...
China's residential property market has come to a standstill as sales offices are ordered to shut amid the coronavirus outbreak. Some agents are bracing for a slump in sales of as much as 80 per cent...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong scrambles to find sites for quarantine centres as...
The Hong Kong government has identified remote sites where prefabricated units can be built within six weeks to quarantine contacts of patients struck by the deadly coronavirus, the Post has...
View ArticleCoronavirus: starting classes in March will be challenging, Hong Kong heads...
The chairman of one of the biggest head teachers’ associations in Hong Kong has said the education sector was preparing for class closures to last beyond March, with the school year likely to be...
View ArticleCoronavirus: desperate scenes as 10,000 queue for masks at Hong Kong...
Thousands of Hongkongers camped out overnight in the cold after a company said it would release 6,000 boxes of surgical masks for sale during citywide shortages caused by the coronavirus outbreak.Luck...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong to quarantine all travellers entering from mainland...
All travellers from mainland China entering Hong Kong, including local residents, would be required to go into quarantine for 14 days, the city’s leader said on Wednesday, as she also disclosed the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: why won’t Carrie Lam shut Hong Kong’s border with mainland China?
As more countries ban visitors from mainland China, Hong Kong’s government has stuck by its determination to only curb the cross-border flow of people, and not shut checkpoints completely.In the face...
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