Coronavirus: cross-border commuters reeling as Hong Kong quarantine plan set...
Cross-border commuters about to have their lives upended by a new 14-day quarantine rule rushed back to Hong Kong on Thursday, with some saying they would be left without access to needed medicine or...
View ArticleCoronavirus: give street cleaners surgical masks or risk them walking off the...
Tens of thousands of street cleaners and sanitation workers in Hong Kong will run out of protective face masks in two weeks and will have to stop working, their employers have said, warning piles of...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hongkongers in panic buying of rice, toilet paper and essentials...
Anxious Hongkongers scrambled on Thursday to stock up on essentials over fears border restrictions to contain the coronavirus would choke off shipments, while the government provided scant details on...
View ArticleHands up those worried about the coronavirus: Hong Kong residents scramble...
Retired tailor May Kong likes to touch things.But as the deadly coronavirus grips the city, with experts warning it can be transmitted through touching contaminated surfaces like door handles, life’s...
View ArticleHong Kong Medical Council cancels licensing exam for overseas doctors in face...
The exam overseas doctors need to take to practise in Hong Kong is to be cancelled amid the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Post learned.Medical Council members agreed the move during a meeting on...
View ArticleCoronavirus game changers? Hong Kong, Macau universities are developing tests...
As researchers and doctors around the world scramble to get to grips with the coronavirus crisis, which has sickened more than 28,000 people, tests that can diagnose the deadly virus in less than an...
View ArticleBeijing’s top diplomat in Hong Kong warns others against ‘taking advantage...
Beijing’s top diplomat in Hong Kong has warned other countries against “taking advantage of China” as it battles the deadly coronavirus outbreak, while assuring the city that the central government was...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong students and civil servants asked to help monitor...
Hong Kong students and civil servants are being recruited to help monitor people returning to the city from mainland China, who will be subject to mandatory quarantine from midnight on Friday.As the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: HSBC and Standard Chartered among Hong Kong banks to waive fees,...
A number of Hong Kong banks including HSBC and Standard Chartered have rushed to introduce measures to relieve the pressure on small and medium-sized businesses and individuals as the coronavirus...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong medical workers vote down plans to extend their strike...
Hong Kong’s striking hospital workers have voted down a plan to extend their industrial action but insisted they will continue to fight for better protection against the deadly new coronavirus and the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: cancellation and postponement of overseas exams may disrupt Hong...
The study abroad plans of hundreds of students could be in limbo as at least four major overseas exams conducted in Hong Kong have been cancelled or postponed amid the coronavirus outbreak.Exams...
View ArticleCoronavirus: thousands trapped on Hong Kong cruise ship killing time playing...
Thousands of passengers and crew spent a third day trapped together on a cruise ship docked in Hong Kong on Friday, as health authorities continued to monitor them for the coronavirus.Those on board...
View ArticleCoronavirus: work from home scheme extended, harsh penalties laid out for...
Work from home arrangements for Hong Kong government employees were extended to February 16 on Friday, as officials also unveiled tough penalties to be faced by those who breach mandatory quarantine...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Circle K stores draw massive crowds as chain gives away 100,000...
Thousands of elderly residents in Hong Kong queued at Circle K shops on Friday for a last-minute giveaway of surgical masks, as the city continues to deal with widespread shortages driven by fears of...
View ArticleHundreds more Hong Kong flights to be cancelled as coronavirus hammers air...
Hundreds more Hong Kong flights are set to be dropped as the floodgates open on airlines cancelling services during the city’s fight against the coronavirus.Carriers based in Asia, Australia, South...
View ArticleCoronavirus: panic buying shows no sign of ending in Hong Kong as shoppers...
Hong Kong supermarkets are struggling to restock shelves as a buying frenzy continues amid fears over the coronavirus outbreak, with some shoppers urging the government to try to restore the public’s...
View ArticleCoronavirus: mainland Chinese queue to enter Hong Kong before quarantine...
Tens of thousands of cross-border travellers packed one of two land ports still in use on Friday before a mandatory 14-day quarantine requirement for all mainland visitors to Hong Kong came in at...
View ArticleBoy, 7, infected with H9 avian flu adding to health woes in Hong Kong already...
A seven-year-old boy in Hong Kong has been infected with H9 bird flu, adding to the health woes in a city already fearing a wider outbreak of the deadly coronavirus.The Centre for Health Protection on...
View ArticleCoronavirus: travellers from mainland China face jail if they defy new Hong...
Travellers to Hong Kong from mainland China will risk jail if they breach mandatory quarantine rules introduced at midnight in the only significant measure announced by the government on Friday as it...
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