Hong Kong faces about 4 new coronavirus cases as health expert warns against...
Hong Kong is expecting about four new Covid-19 cases on Saturday as a government health adviser struck a cautious tone against further relaxing the city’s social-distancing rules.The estimated figure...
View ArticleHong Kong student’s Covid-19 infection has authorities racing to discover...
Hong Kong authorities were racing to trace the source of a student’s Covid-19 infection on Sunday, as a source said the city faced five new cases on the final day of the long weekend.The figures, if...
View ArticleHong Kong needs more public housing, rent controls, NGO says after survey on...
Hong Kong’s leader must include measures in the coming policy address that centre on ramping up construction of public housing, and impose rent controls to improve living conditions for low-income...
View ArticleCoronavirus: when will Hong Kong’s fourth wave of Covid-19 hit? Very soon,...
A fourth wave of Covid-19 infections is looming in Hong Kong, experts say. In the first of a three-part series, the Post looks at when and why a spike in infections is expected and how the flu season...
View ArticleHong Kong bar at centre of potential Covid-19 outbreak could have broken...
A bar at the centre of a possible coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong could have violated social-distancing measures, a government health adviser said on Monday, as the city faced 11 new cases.On Sunday,...
View ArticleCoronavirus: who will be Hong Kong’s worst hit in Covid-19 fourth wave?...
Hong Kong’s third wave of Covid-19 infections led to nearly 4,000 people contracting the virus between early July and late last month, 98 of whom died, but the fight is far from over. In the second of...
View ArticleCoronavirus cases linked to Hong Kong bar spark fears in the industry, calls...
When Chandan Kumar, manager of the Old Monk Bar and Grill, discovered that a patron of a bar across the street from his establishment in Tsim Sha Tsui had tested positive for coronavirus, he was...
View ArticleHong Kong leader Carrie Lam rules out imminent relaxation of...
Hong Kong’s social-distancing rules must remain in force given the prevalence of coronavirus infections with unknown sources, the city’s leader said on Tuesday as the city expected eight new cases.The...
View ArticleThai Covid-19 patient linked to Tsim Sha Tsui bar now suspected of being part...
A Thai Covid-19 patient linked to a potential cluster of cases at a Tsim Sha Tsui watering hole is now believed by authorities to be among a group of 10 women from the country who were arranged by an...
View ArticleCoronavirus: what is Hong Kong doing to curb a potential fourth wave?...
Tracking the new coronavirus has presented challenges to scientists and health authorities, but the technologies involved are maturing. In this last entry in a three-part series, the Post looks at how...
View ArticleHong Kong facing 11 new Covid-19 cases, as government weighs up citywide...
Hong Kong was expected to record 11 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, as a government source revealed officials were mulling another citywide closure of pubs and bars.All eyes are on a potentially...
View ArticleGovernment Covid-19 adviser Keiji Fukuda to leave University of Hong Kong’s...
A pandemic control expert who has been a key government adviser during the Covid-19 crisis will step down as head of a top Hong Kong university’s public health school by the end of next year after his...
View ArticleCathay Pacific crew to join trials on rapid coronavirus test in closely...
A Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Hong Kong to Singapore will take off on Thursday with crew members who have volunteered for a new and rapid Covid-19 test that is still being evaluated, in a...
View ArticleHong Kong Covid-19 transmission rate climbing, university reports, as source...
The Covid-19 transmission rate has hit a two-month high in Hong Kong, a university report revealed on Thursday, as a medical source said the city faced 17 new cases, most of which were locally...
View ArticleHong Kong rolls out its first scheme dedicated to eliminating viral hepatitis
The Hong Kong government has rolled out a host of measures worth more than HK$70 million (US$9 million) a year under an inaugural blueprint for combating viral hepatitis with the goal of rendering the...
View ArticleDiabetes alert for Hongkongers as researchers find alarming sixfold rise in...
Health experts have urged Hongkongers to be vigilant to the threat of diabetes after a study found an alarming sixfold increase over 15 years among those deemed at high risk of developing the...
View ArticleFive-star Hong Kong hotel ordered to close for two weeks over staff Covid-19...
A five-star Hong Kong hotel has been ordered to shut after staff tested positive for Covid-19, and concerns over a possible outbreak at a disabled care home grew on Friday, as a source said the city...
View ArticleHong Kong maternity leave to extend by four weeks from December 11, but...
Four more weeks of maternity leave for Hong Kong mothers will become a reality on December 11, it was revealed on Friday, but unionists who pushed for the reform say the city can and should go further...
View ArticleHong Kong company hands out free coronavirus test kits to bar-goers as fears...
An estimated 3,000 coronavirus testing kits will be distributed to bar patrons and staff in a government-subsidised outreach scheme aimed at curbing a growing Covid-19 cluster linked to a Hong Kong...
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