Coronavirus: four more Hong Kong passengers evacuated from Diamond Princess...
Four more Hongkongers who flew home from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan preliminarily tested positive for the deadly coronavirus on Sunday, medical sources said, as the number of...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong’s low-income families struggling to afford masks and...
Nearly 70 per cent of low-income families in Hong Kong cannot afford to buy masks or disinfectant, and are experiencing increased levels of stress over the coronavirus epidemic, a human rights advocacy...
View ArticleTrapped, desperate, and pregnant: expectant mothers among Hongkongers...
A 77-year-old man has become the first Hongkonger to die in mainland China from the coronavirus, the Hong Kong government said on Sunday, as thousands of the city’s residents remain stranded in the...
View ArticleHong Kong property heavyweight branches out as it pumps millions into face...
Property developer New World Development is to invest millions of dollars in producing face masks in Hong Kong at the end of March, the Post can reveal.As the city battles against the coronavirus...
View ArticleCoronavirus: as mask shortages bite, what must Carrie Lam do to fix Hong...
The government has been hammered for its response to surgical mask shortages in Hong Kong, with health workers struggling for supplies and desperate residents forced to queue for hours to shield...
View ArticleThe Hongkongers refusing to wear a mask for the coronavirus outbreak
The head coach of a gym in Sai Ying Pun does not believe wearing a surgical mask will protect him from the deadly coronavirus sweeping China and beyond.Joshua Meninga, 31, is part of a small but...
View ArticleCoronavirus: two more Hong Kong evacuees from Diamond Princess cruise ship...
Hong Kong reported two more coronavirus cases late on Monday, both evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, adding to the five confirmed infections earlier in the day and bringing the city’s...
View ArticleActing vice-principal at Hong Kong school suspended for sharing poem that...
The acting vice-principal of a Hong Kong secondary school has been suspended after sharing an acrostic poem on social media targeting police following an officer’s infection with the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: government to send flights to rescue Hongkongers stranded in...
The Hong Kong government has said it will send chartered flights to rescue residents, including several pregnant women, stranded in mainland China’s locked down Hubei province – but it would not commit...
View ArticleEscape from Hubei: mother and child back in Hong Kong after 10-hour road trip...
A woman and her young child have escaped from the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic after a 10-hour road trip, becoming the first known case of Hong Kong residents returning to the city by...
View ArticleChina’s economic powerhouse Guangdong lowers coronavirus threat level amid...
China’s southern economic powerhouse of Guangdong lowered its public health emergency response to the Covid-19 epidemic on Monday, offering relief to some businesses.A Grade I alert – the highest level...
View ArticleThe Polytechnic University lab 3D printing face shields for...
A Hong Kong university is using new technology to spearhead efforts to send thousands of medical face shields to the city’s hospital workers as they battle to contain the coronavirus...
View ArticleHong Kong health chief during Sars epidemic believes city’s emergency plan...
A former health minister who learned the difficulty of dealing with public health crises the hard way during the 2003 Sars epidemic wants to put that experience to use by helping the government review...
View ArticleCoronavirus: has Hong Kong learned the hard lessons of Sars or is it...
After the Sars outbreak of 2003 claimed 299 lives in Hong Kong, a postmortem of the city’s missteps held a handful of senior officials accountable. The most high profile figure was health minister Yeoh...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong Jockey Club member the latest confirmed case, bringing...
A fourth coronavirus case was confirmed in Hong Kong late on Tuesday, a 60-year-old member of the Jockey Club, increasing the city’s total number of infections to 85.The woman, who lives in Tai Hang on...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong schools to remain closed until after Easter but...
After being shut for more than three weeks, Hong Kong schools are to remain closed until after Easter even as university entrance exams will go ahead as planned, education officials said on Tuesday, as...
View ArticleCoronavirus: missing meals, no toilet paper, and leaks, but for some Hong...
Six days into their mandatory quarantine period and the Hong Kong passengers evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan are experiencing wildly different emotions.For some of those being...
View ArticleNumber of coronavirus cases in Hong Kong could surge to more than 1,000 in...
The number of coronavirus cases in Hong Kong could balloon to more than 1,000 within the next two weeks if the government does not effectively manage the epidemic, a local scientist has claimed.Dr Sean...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong civil servants set to return to offices from next...
Hong Kong’s civil servants will return to government offices from next Monday, after spending a month working from home in a bid to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus, the Post has...
View ArticleCoronavirus: clock ticking for students trapped in Hubei desperate to sit...
Tony Lau could be forced to give up his dream of becoming a doctor if he cannot get back to Hong Kong in time for the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) university entrance exams – a very real...
View Article