Coronavirus: toddler among four new Hong Kong Covid-19 cases, all recently...
Hong Kong confirmed four new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, including a child of two, bringing the city’s total infections to 1,033. All four had recently returned from Britain.The new cases were...
View ArticleHong Kong needs permanent quarantine facilities to cope with future disease...
Permanent quarantine facilities could be set up to cope with future infectious disease outbreaks, Hong Kong’s health chief said on Wednesday, as the city’s four new coronavirus infections were all...
View ArticleHong Kong government falling behind on environmental promises, green group says
Hong Kong is expected to miss a waste reduction target, putting an even greater strain on landfills, a green group has warned in a report card on the government’s environmental goals over the past five...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong may be able to ease social-distancing restrictions in...
Hong Kong could be in a position to start relaxing some of its social-distancing measures by early next month, according to top health experts, as the city confirmed two new Covid-19 cases, both...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong records two new cases, both involving men who had...
Hong Kong recorded two new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, marking the 12th day in a row that the city had seen the daily increase of infections remain under double digits.As the city’s tally rose to...
View ArticleCoronavirus: plan to isolate airport arrivals in hotel gets off to rocky...
Hong Kong’s latest plan to isolate airport arrivals in a hotel pending their Covid-19 test results has gotten off to a rocky start with complaints of poor logistics, lax security, insufficient...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong schools take extra precautions – robots included – as...
As hundreds of Hong Kong schools gear up for Friday’s kick-off to a university entrance exam delayed by the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, vigilance is the watchword, with one school even...
View ArticleBad dreams, more stress and nowhere to hide: ‘Zoom fatigue’ is making life...
Veteran primary schoolteacher Rita* could never have imagined a videoconferencing app she had never heard of would give her bad dreams, but that was before the coronavirus pandemic shut her school...
View ArticleHong Kong students finally begin delayed Diploma of Secondary Education...
Hong Kong’s long-awaited university entrance exams began on Friday morning amid the coronavirus pandemic, with most of the first batch of 3,300 candidates wearing masks and sanitising their hands as...
View ArticleCoronavirus: No new cases in Hong Kong, but health chief warns fight is ‘new...
Hong Kong recorded no new coronavirus cases on Friday for the second time in a week, but the health minister said residents would have to accept the battle against the pandemic as the “new norm”.The...
View ArticleCoronavirus: testing Covid-19 restrictions, protesters gather in the heart of...
Nearly 100 protesters returned to an upscale shopping mall in the heart of Hong Kong’s financial district on Friday, testing coronavirus restrictions on public gatherings to show support for recently...
View ArticleMan fights for life after eating pufferfish he caught in Hong Kong
A 65-year-old man was fighting for his life in hospital on Friday after eating a pufferfish he caught in Hong Kong waters.About two hours after cooking his catch and eating it for lunch at home on...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong government contacts 2,900 residents stuck in India to...
Officials say they have contacted thousands of Hongkongers stranded in India under the world's biggest Covid-19 lockdown to pinpoint their locations as a community leader urged the city’s chief...
View ArticleCoronavirus may have lesser after-effect on patients than Sars, with...
Some patients who have recovered from Covid-19 are healthy and “energetic” with normal lung functions, a leading respiratory expert in Hong Kong has said, suggesting the coronavirus may have a lesser...
View ArticleCoronavirus: eight patients in Hong Kong again test positive for Covid-19...
Eight coronavirus patients in Hong Kong again tested positive for Covid-19 after being discharged from hospital, health officials revealed on Saturday, as the city recorded two new cases, both...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong lawyers, lawmakers flag hygiene issues at detention...
Human rights lawyers and lawmakers have flagged concerns about conditions at a Hong Kong immigration detention centre, saying they are worried about the risk of Covid-19 spreading among detainees.But...
View ArticlePets don’t catch coronavirus easily or spread it to other animals, humans,...
Hong Kong government veterinary experts who observed and tested 52 animals under quarantine have concluded pets do not play a significant role in spreading the coronavirus causing Covid-19.The...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hongkongers told not to lower guard as city records no new cases...
Hong Kong’s health authorities urged residents not to lower their guard as the city recorded no new Covid-19 cases for the third time in a week on Sunday, keeping the total tally of infections at...
View ArticleCoronavirus: suicide experts warn of pandemic’s impact on mental health, with...
A leading Hong Kong mental health expert has warned that the city might be on the brink of a surge in suicides brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.Professor Paul Yip Siu-fai, director of the University...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong can consider easing social curbs but all arrivals...
Hong Kong can consider easing social-distancing measures enacted to limit the spread of Covid-19 but should begin testing all arrivals twice – once after entering Hong Kong and again at the end of...
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