Hong Kong third wave: no need for second round of mass screening, health...
There is no need for Hong Kong to conduct a second round of mass testing even if Hong Kong is hit by another wave of Covid-19 in the winter, given better strategies are available to contain the...
View ArticleNational security law and coronavirus put Hong Kong students of Chinese...
Several Chinese medicine students in Hong Kong plan to defer their studies over safety fears related to the coronavirus pandemic and national security law, after city universities decided to restart...
View ArticleHong Kong records no new local Covid-19 cases for first time since third wave...
Key points:•Dine-in services are banned from midnight until 5am, and restaurants must operate at half capacity with no more than four people per table•Bars and nightclubs can resume operations at half...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong’s HK$24 billion third-round cash relief offers...
Hong Kong’s struggling businesses will get a shot in the arm with a HK$24 billion (US$3.1 billion) third round of Covid-19 relief funding unveiled on Tuesday that will shrink the city’s fiscal reserves...
View ArticleUnfazed by dirty work, Hong Kong university infectious disease doctor leads...
When Dr Anthony Tam trained as an infectious disease specialist in Hong Kong he could scarcely have imagined he would be fighting a once-in-a-generation pandemic just three years later.A discipline...
View ArticleDrop in Covid-19 cases not an excuse to do what you want, infectious disease...
Hong Kong recorded nine new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, as an infectious disease expert said residents should stay at home as much as possible despite the easing of social-distancing measures.All of...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Carrie Lam appealed to Hong Kong’s diplomatic community to take...
Top diplomats based in Hong Kong received a special appeal from city leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to join the recently concluded free mass testing scheme for Covid-19, the Post has learned, in a...
View ArticleHong Kong records nine new Covid-19 cases, as city faces return of infections...
Hong Kong recorded nine new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, with three locally transmitted infections coming from unknown sources.On the eve of a further relaxation of the city’s social-distancing...
View ArticleHong Kong bathhouses prepare to reopen after Covid-19 shutdown, as industry...
Bathhouses in Hong Kong have ramped up hygiene measures ahead of reopening this week, after being forced to close for about four months by the coronavirus and losing millions of dollars as a...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong to launch second round of Covid-19 testing for...
Hong Kong taxi drivers and workers at wet markets, restaurants and elderly care homes will be invited for a second round of coronavirus testing targeting high-risk groups to counter the threat of a new...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong’s fourth wave ‘could be the worst yet’ as city aims...
Key points• HK$8.4 billion set aside to procure enough vaccine shots for two times the population• Regular testing for high-risk groups with daily capacity increased to tens of thousands• Quarantine...
View ArticleCovid-19: no more wage subsidies for businesses, Hong Kong’s No 2 says, even...
Hong Kong’s No 2 official has warned there will be no further wage subsidies for businesses hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic even as unemployment woes deepen and the city confirming 13 more...
View ArticleHong Kong Covid-19 caseload surpasses 5,000 mark after 13 new infections emerge
The number of Covid-19 infections in Hong Kong surpassed 5,000 on Saturday after 13 new cases emerged, one involving a university laboratory researcher working with coronavirus samples.Health experts...
View ArticleDozens of Hong Kong university laboratory staff in quarantine after...
More than 40 staff at a Hong Kong university laboratory where a researcher handling coronavirus samples earlier tested positive have been placed in quarantine after significant traces of the virus were...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: educator says students should walk to school to avoid...
A veteran educator has recommended Hong Kong students walk to school when physical classes resume this week if the journey takes less than 45 minutes as a way to avoid crowded public transport during...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: Covid-19 travel bubbles may require flights to forgo...
Transit passengers may not be allowed on some flights between Hong Kong and its future travel bubble partners in order to ensure everyone on board is coronavirus-free, the city’s commerce minister has...
View ArticleCoronavirus: virologist Malik Peiris says ‘absolutely not’ an outbreak at...
Leading virologist Professor Malik Peiris, whose University of Hong Kong laboratory has conducted major Covid-19 research, on Monday rejected the idea it was at the centre of a possible new outbreak,...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong urged to add France, Spain, Britain and Russia to...
Hong Kong is under pressure to add Covid-19-stricken European nations to its list of high-risk countries under which travellers must prove they are not infected with the coronavirus before boarding...
View ArticleSurvey mapping online behaviour of Hongkongers amid Covid-19 says they were...
Hongkongers were most angry on the day all restaurants were banned from providing dine-in services, according to the latest big data research, which has found local social media platforms were flooded...
View ArticleUntraced locally transmitted Covid-19 case among three new infections...
Hong Kong expects to see about three new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, with at least one locally transmitted case of an unknown origin, sources said.If confirmed, it would be the third straight day of...
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