Just six Covid-19 cases in first batch of 128,000 Hongkongers tested in mass...
Only six Hong Kong residents were confirmed infected in the first batch of 128,000 tested in the city’s universal Covid-19 screening programme, four of them being recovered patients discharged last...
View ArticleHong Kong’s days of ‘cash is king’ may be in peril as fears of Covid-19...
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the pace at which Hong Kong is turning into a cashless society as fear of contracting the deadly disease has prompted people to shop online or pay by phone,...
View ArticleWHO expert panel endorses Covid-19 treatment used in Hong Kong involving...
A new World Health Organisation guideline recommends the use of steroids for severely and critically ill Covid-19 patients – a treatment already used in Hong Kong – with the global body estimating the...
View ArticleHong Kong’s next round of Covid-19 relief funding will be under HK$30...
The next phase of Hong Kong’s coronavirus relief package is expected to involve less than HK$30 billion (US$3.9 billion) aimed at businesses most battered by the pandemic, leaving out sectors deemed to...
View ArticleElderly Hongkonger arrested after stealing box of saliva samples from...
An elderly Hongkonger who did not want to get wet stole a box of coronavirus test samples from a collection point to use as an umbrella, before dumping it in a nearby car park.The 82-year-old man took...
View ArticleIs Hong Kong’s mass Covid-19 testing scheme worth the trouble? Debate rages...
Officials have extended Hong Kong’s free testing programme by four days as they identified two more Covid-19 cases in the voluntary citywide exercise, insisting it was helping track down invisible...
View ArticleMetropark hotel cluster grows, mass testing scheme uncovers possible...
A new Covid-19 cluster surrounding the Metropark Hotel in Mong Kok grew as the city confirmed 12 new cases on Friday, including two newly detected by Hong Kong’s ongoing mass testing scheme.Officials...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: massage parlours and gyms finally reopen but where are...
Gyms and massage parlours across Hong Kong reopened on Friday after being closed for six weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, and although the return to business was welcomed, they are spending more...
View ArticleAt mass Covid-19 testing site in Hong Kong, concerns raised over inadequate...
Doctors have expressed concern over staff working in at least one collection centre for Hong Kong’s mass Covid-19 testing effort receiving “non-medical use” gowns and residents being admitted who are...
View ArticleClass suspensions and early pickups: Hong Kong schools get new Covid-19...
Hong Kong’s schools have been advised to immediately suspend face-to-face teaching for one to two days while awaiting official confirmation in the event any staff or students preliminarily test...
View ArticleCovid-19 misery lingers for recovered patients in Hong Kong who describe...
Four months after recovering from Covid-19, Mable Wong still feels anxious and has difficulty falling asleep at night.The freelance translator in her 30s is awake until 2am or 3am most nights, her mind...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: daily caseload falls to 7, lowest in two months, as...
New coronavirus infections in Hong Kong fell to seven on Saturday, the fewest in more than two months, as the number of residents who have signed up for the mass testing programme surpassed a...
View ArticleCourt sides with environmentalist against Hong Kong developer that wants to...
An environmentalist has won a judicial review challenging the decision to approve a major developer’s controversial plans to build homes in Hong Kong’s internationally renowned wetland habitat for...
View ArticleMentally disabled Hong Kong man dies after struggle with hospital staff over...
A Hong Kong man with mental disabilities died after struggling with hospital staff trying to put a straitjacket on him and the case has been sent to the Coroner’s Court, health authorities said on...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong to test more than 7,000 inmates after two detainees...
Hong Kong will test more than 7,000 inmates for the coronavirus after two detainees were among 21 new cases confirmed on Sunday, undertaking a complex logistical challenge that will require...
View ArticleCovid-19 and kids: how Hong Kong cares for city’s young coronavirus patients
When Lee (not her real name) was finally able to reunite with her son almost two months after he was infected with the coronavirus, she did not expect him to burst into tears when they had to leave the...
View ArticleHong Kong health officials race to contain growing Covid-19 cluster linked to...
Health authorities are racing to contain a growing coronavirus cluster tied to an industrial building in northern Hong Kong after five cases involving workers or their close contacts were among 11 new...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: new testing push for elderly, at-risk infants after...
Hong Kong will expand stool testing for Covid-19 among the very young and the elderly in the wake of a local university study that found the coronavirus in samples taken from patients with no...
View ArticleHong Kong Airport Authority, conservation department urged to work together...
Hong Kong’s environmental watchdog has urged two government agencies to cooperate on monitoring the population of endangered Chinese white dolphins after years of separate surveys from both agencies...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong to relax social-distancing rules as it reveals travel...
Key points:• Four people will be allowed per table in restaurants, up from a cap of two, but the ban on dine-in services from 10pm to 5am remains unchanged• The limit on public gatherings will be...
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