No chance of recovery for Hong Kong’s stricken retail sector this year, says...
Hong Kong’s battered retail sector has no hope of recovering in the rest of 2020, according to Lifestyle International Holdings, the operator of the city’s biggest Japanese-style department store...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: three labs picked to help mainland China medical team...
Three Hong Kong-based laboratories listed in mainland China will team up with the dozens of experts crossing the border to carry out large-scale coronavirus testing in the city, a government source has...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: universal Covid-19 testing tougher than it sounds, say...
Universal testing for Covid-19 may serve to reassure the public, but it is not a viable means of containing Hong Kong’s third wave of infection, health experts have said, despite new mainland help in...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: fear over spread of Covid-19 at wet markets increases...
Fear over possible Covid-19 infection gripped some vendors and shoppers in Hong Kong on Wednesday, a day after a cluster of cases plagued busy wet markets at the heart of the city.Doctors have called...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: health officials race to find 32 domestic helpers...
Health officials are scrambling to locate at-risk Hong Kong households after a job-seeking domestic helper confirmed as infected with the coronavirus shared accommodation within the last fortnight with...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: passage from India a struggle, as government red tape...
After six months in India, Rajiv Sahay and his wife, Meenakshi, finally arrived back in Hong Kong on Tuesday night.The couple had left the city to visit their son in New Delhi on February 18, and never...
View ArticleCoronavirus: latest Hong Kong pets to test positive for Covid-19 are Scottish...
Two more family pets tested positive for Covid-19, pushing the total number of confirmed infections among Hong Kong animals to eight so far, the authorities reported on Wednesday.The latest cases were...
View ArticleShould you be worried about Hong Kong’s wet market Covid-19 clusters, and do...
Hong Kong has seen its daily number of Covid-19 cases fall below 100 for three straight days, but just as the city shows signs of reining in a resurgent third wave of infections, an unfolding health...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: dozens of domestic workers exposed to infected pair,...
As many as 51 foreign domestic helpers have come into contact with a pair of maids whose infections sparked fears of a wider outbreak in their employers’ households and the migrant worker community at...
View ArticleOne-two punch of protests, coronavirus playing havoc with mental health in...
Some three-quarters of Hongkongers are harbouring negative thoughts in the aftermath of last year’s social unrest and amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, with young people suffering significantly...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: Macau tightens entry requirements for arrivals from...
With Hong Kong’s third wave of Covid-19 infections showing no sign of easing, Macau has followed Guangdong’s lead in placing tighter entry requirements on arrivals from the city, who, starting on...
View ArticleMissing mentally disabled man trapped for two days in Hong Kong restaurant...
A mentally disabled man was found safe on Thursday in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay shopping district after being trapped for two days in an eighth-floor restaurant that had suspended operations amid...
View ArticleAre Hong Kong’s boarding houses hotbeds for Covid-19, and what is being done...
Concerns about a new coronavirus cluster in Hong Kong have mounted, after a job-seeking domestic worker infected with Covid-19 was found to have shared accommodation with 45 other helpers at three...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: Covid-19 tests on 30 close contacts of infected helper...
A coronavirus-infected domestic helper who came into close contact with at least 45 others was found to have stayed at a fourth hostel, Hong Kong health officials revealed on Friday, while testing of...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: massive voluntary coronavirus testing programme to kick...
Every Hong Kong resident will be eligible for one free coronavirus test in a massive voluntary programme starting in two weeks with the help of medical experts from mainland China, as the city battles...
View ArticleCoronavirus: crowded dorms putting domestic helpers at risk of infection,...
Crowded dormitories at recruitment agencies for domestic workers in Hong Kong put vulnerable migrants at risk of contracting and spreading the coronavirus, advocates have said, as officials on Friday...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: why mainland China’s help in fighting Covid-19 has...
Nearly a week after seven experts from mainland China arrived in Hong Kong as part of a first batch to help the city battle the third wave of coronavirus infections, the prevailing reaction to the...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: city tops 4,000 Covid-19 cases as 69 new infections...
Hong Kong’s Covid-19 tally surpassed 4,000 on Saturday, as 69 new cases were recorded, marking the city’s sixth straight day with fewer than 100 infections.But while the number of new cases has dipped...
View ArticleHongkongers turn to remote Sai Kung islands to relax, raising safety concerns...
Nestled in the pristine waters of Hong Kong’s eastern tip are a group of remote islands which have become a magnet for people eager for fresh air and a respite from the Covid-19 pandemic.They arrive by...
View Article‘More elderly people will die’: grim facts behind Hong Kong’s Covid-19 death...
Hong Kong’s sharp increase in Covid-19 deaths over the past month came after more elderly people were infected and succumbed to their illness, including four more on Sunday morning, health experts...
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