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Overflowing hospitals, empty supermarket shelves and grim quarantine camps -- Hong Kong is in chaos battling a ballooning Covid outbreak in a business hub once renowned for its efficiency. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Bar Association’s former chairman fled the city hours after being questioned by police under a national security law that carries sentences as long as life in prison, according to local ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is bracing for a potential lockdown in March as the city struggles to contain its worst Covid-19 outbreak yet, with daily infections surging to five digits and deaths rising. While local ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's government said any decision to impose a COVID-19 lockdown would take into account the global financial hub's status and ensure basic needs such as food and urged anxious residents who ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is planning a four-day limited lockdown at the start of a compulsory Covid-19 testing blitz later this month, local news outlet HK01 reported Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s Covid-19 fatality rate is now the highest in the developed world amid a wave of deaths among its under-vaccinated elderly population, ramping up pressure on officials to get the outbreak ... ( read original story ...)

Panic buying returned to Hong Kong with many supermarket shelves stripped bare following mixed messaging from the government over whether it plans a city lockdown later this month when it tests all ... ( read original story ...)

There will likely be a city-wide lockdown when Hong Kong undergoes mass testing of all 7.4 million residents later this month, local reports said. ( read original story ...)

Temporary isolation facility emerges from the ground in Hong Kong as the city faces an unprecedented wave of Covid in the wake of the Omicron variant. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong residents braced for a city-wide lockdown, emptying supermarkets and pharmacies on Tuesday, even as leader Carrie Lam called for calm and appealed for the public not to worry over a ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong plans to lock down the city to ensure a mandatory Covid-19 testing drive this month is effective, according to local media. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised its ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam called for calm on Tuesday after residents emptied supermarkets, stocking up on produce ahead of reports of compulsory mass COVID-19 testing and rumours of a city-wide ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is planning to enforce a lockdown of the city to ensure a mandatory Covid-19 testing drive planned for this month is effective, Sing Tao Daily reported. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is planning to enforce a lockdown of the city to ensure a mandatory Covid-19 testing drive planned for this month is effective, Sing Tao Daily reported. Most Read from BloombergBelarus ... ( read original story ...)