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Hong Kong is changing its Covid-testing strategy to obtain faster results with self-administered kits as it battles to suppress its worst coronavirus outbreak to date. ( read original story ...)

Two batches of mainland health experts have arrived in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to work with the HKSAR government in fighting the latest COVID-19 outbreak, a health official ... ( read original story ...)

Closure of Sheung Shui and Tsuen Wan slaughterhouses has affected supply, with a number of fresh meat stalls closed and residents forced to buy frozen products instead. ( read original story ...)

Lawmakers and advisers to Hong Kong’s leader have called for greater flexibility in the distribution of consumption vouchers and a clear explanation by the government on landlords’ liabilities under ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong authorities said they would allow some children testing positive for COVID-19 to remain at home, rather than being separated from their parents and hospitalised, after a public outcry from ... ( read original story ...)

More than a year after Sushmita Gurung was forcibly separated from her two children by Hong Kong medical authorities after testing positive for Covid-19, her five-year-old daughte ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s latest Covid containment campaign is taking its greatest toll on the hundreds of thousands of migrant women who work as live-in domestic workers in the city. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s fifth wave of coronavirus could see thousands of deaths, a new study said. Slammed by the city's fifth wave of COVID-19, Hong Kong is facing its worst health period since the pandemic ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong on Friday reported another sharp jump in new COVID-19 cases to more than 10,000 in the latest 24-hour period as it battles its worst outbreak of the pandemic. The new daily case count ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, was summoned to a meeting on the mainland where she got a direct order sent from Xi Jinping: Get the outbreak under control ahead of planned visit by the Chinese leader ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong on Friday reported another sharp jump in new COVID-19 cases to more than 10,000 in the latest 24-hour period as it battles its worst outbreak of the pandemic. The new daily case count ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong prisons on Friday (Feb 25) reported a worsening coronavirus outbreak involving more than 200 inmates at a time when hundreds of political activists and protesters are being kept behind bars. ( read original story ...)

With stringent rules already in place the vaccine passport and new COVID-19 measures aim at flattening the growing curve. ( read original story ...)

Guada, a mother of two young children and pregnant with twins, cries herself to sleep at night, worried that Hong Kong’s severe COVID-19 rules will ... ( read original story ...)