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Hong Kong's leader said Sunday that the government would consider lifting strict social distancing measures as new COVID-19 infections in the city continued trending downward. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has the world’s highest daily death rate at 37 per million residents and is reeling from the sort of devastating scenes witnessed in Europe, the US, Brazil and India ... ( read original story ...)

If you had asked me when I was 18 what I thought of Hong Kong, I would have told you that I was ambivalent. Hong Kong was a place where I just happened to find myself. It was the ... ( read original story ...)

Xi Jinping’s Covid tsar travelled south to Hong Kong where he witnessed panic and chaos sweeping through the financial hub as body bags overflowed from intensi ... ( read original story ...)

Government officials have been unable to curb an outbreak that has surpassed one million infections, leading Beijing to step up its intervention in the semiautonomous territory. ( read original story ...)

There were almost 900 confirmed COVID-19 infections per 100,000 residents of Hong Kong when case numbers peaked in the city earlier this month, according to an analysis of government data by the Hong ... ( read original story ...)

To keep out the virus, the city shut up shop. But low vaccination rates mean it has now stormed our defences, says Hong Kong-based writer Ilaria Maria Sala ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has passed one million COVID-19 cases throughout the pandemic on Friday as the country struggles to contain its latest COVID-19 outbreak. The city said its total number of cases since the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s total coronavirus infections exceeded 1 million and the number of related deaths topped those in mainland China, as the city grapples with a widespread outbreak. Health officials reported ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, March 18 (Reuters) - Hong Kong reported about 20,000 new coronavirus cases on Friday as health experts called for a clear way out of a "zero COVID" policy that has left the city isolated. ( read original story ...)

For most of the Covid pandemic, life in Hong Kong remained a simulacrum of normal. The city maintained one of the world’s strictest border control measures, requir ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong health authorities reported 20,082 COVID-19 cases on Friday, down from 21,650 COVID-19 cases on Thursday, and 206 deaths compared with 202 in the previous 24 hours. ( read original story ...)

Aquila Acquisition Corp shares slipped on Friday in the first special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) listing in Hong Kong as the city's bourse talked up what it calls "a new route to market". ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's leader on Friday warned against making "divisive comments" about mainland medics helping battle the city's deadly Omicron-fuelled wave after questions of accountability were raised by the ... ( read original story ...)