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About 9,400 Hong Kong government employees have been infected with Covid-19 since the fifth wave of infections hit the city in late December, while more than 10,000 officers from the disciplined ... ( read original story ...)

As health officials reported a record 55,353 daily infections and over 100 deaths occurring on March 2, Hong Kong Chief executive Carrie Lam said people's movements may be restricted during mandatory ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong reported 37,529 new coronavirus infections on Saturday and 150 deaths, as the city clings to a "zero-COVID" strategy despite spiralling cases that have spread through care homes and ... ( read original story ...)

By Julia Hollingsworth, Wayne Chang, Elizabeth Yee, Ivan Watson and Teele Rebane, CNN Morgues are nearly at capacity, hospitals overwhelmed and, as fears ... ( read original story ...)

About 15% of Hong Kong’s population may have been infected by Covid-19, local media reported, citing estimates by a professor advising the government on the pandemic. ( read original story ...)

Provided by Xinhua Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region HKSAR Carrie Lam said that the current priority for the governmen ... ( read original story ...)

With some kind of lockdown and grim isolation centers looming, the city shows signs of trauma. Two years into the pandemic and counting, the biggest toll may be psychological. ( read original story ...)

Two of Hong Kong’s largest consumer retail chains started rationing some food and drug items to curb panic buying that has plagued the city over the past week amid fears of a citywide lockdown as ... ( read original story ...)

Focus falls on elderly population, with calls for government to streamline procedures and channel resource to vulnerable, undervaccinated demographic. ( read original story ...)

International star Jackie Chan does his part for Hong Kong by donating medical supplies as the city battles a fifth wave of COVID-19. According to reports, the 67-year-old star donated 100,000 boxes ... ( read original story ...)

E-commerce platform HKTVmall struggles to make deliveries as workers test positive for coronavirus, placed in quarantine. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has cut the recommended interval between the first and second dose of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine for care home residents from four weeks to three, as the city battles a worsening ... ( read original story ...)

Covid-19 may be running rampant through Hong Kong, where fatality rates are among the highest in the developed world, but 80-year-old Ho Yau-lin is in no hurry to get vaccinated. Ho is scared of ... ( read original story ...)

A team of mainland health experts led by Liang Wannian, head of the COVID-19 response expert panel under China's National Health Commission, agreed that reducing the mortality in severe cases is the ... ( read original story ...)