A 90-year-old woman was the city’s ninth fatality and the second from coronavirus-hit Kong Tai Care for the Aged Centre in Tsz Wan Shan.

A 64-year-old cancer patient in Queen Elizabeth Hospital is confirmed with coronavirus after being placed in a ward with two others who have the infection.

Four leading public health figures comment on government’s coronavirus strategy, urging officials to prepare more isolation and quarantine facilities.

City will enter new phase in battle to stop escalating health crisis, with restaurants and bars among venues facing tough restrictions.

Local health officials have classified Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and South Africa as high-risk due to their low testing rates.

Fresh cluster discovered at public housing estate, adding to existing ones centred around elderly care home, restaurants and taxi drivers Students will begin summer holidays early, but health minister says annual book fair will go ahead.

With local cases surging, health authorities are reintroducing seating limits at restaurants, adding precautionary measures for certain categories of arrivals.

Government has tightened up the suggestions after single facility hit with 32 infections. While admitting the homes are under host of constraints, health protection measures cannot remain voluntary, the experts argue.

Restaurants, bars and some leisure venues must adopt stricter preventive steps on Saturday after 34 local infections emerge. Most of the latest cases are tied to three clusters, one involving taxi drivers.

Third wave of cases in Hong Kong brings 28 new local infections over two days. Experts point to a lack of Covid-19 testing and issues with quarantine exemptions as factors.

Cleaner at stricken centre in Tsz Wan Shan may have worked at another facility in same building. Nineteen of the latest infections are local, the highest single-day tally in more than three months, with several coming from an unknown source.

Nine cases are local as minister says tougher social-distancing curbs may be necessary amid ‘very alarming’ situation, Care home cluster fears as resident confirmed infected, three others test positive and four members of staff there also return positive results.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says authorities will review virus-containment measures this afternoon amid six more preliminary positive cases.

Anaesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun said to be ‘unfit to be a member of the medical profession’.

The government is also considering tightening the rules on those granted an exemption from Covid-19 testing when entering the city.

Public health experts warn of insufficient isolation facilities as thousands of city residents are expected to return home from high-risk countries.

The individual departed Canada on a Cathay Pacific flight heading to Vietnam, but his plans were disrupted when he tried to transit in Hong Kong. He tested negative for Covid-19 and left the airport.

Ten transit passengers currently undergoing quarantine in city will be flown back to Dubai after their isolation ends on Saturday, while the Middle Eastern carrier will suspend transit services via Hong Kong airport from July 2 to 15.

The sole locally transmitted infection involved a 46-year-old Hongkonger  ‘epidemiologically linked’ to two imported cases – her husband and son.

The law applies to anyone living or any company operating in Hong Kong. Beijing’s new agency in city gets law enforcement powers, while decisions by new local committee will not be subject to judicial reviews.

Number of people allowed to gather publicly remains at 50, though bars, theatres and other venues can operate at 80 per cent capacity from Friday.

Questions raised over how group was handled and whether they were properly tested. Airlines involved still investigating how arrivals were allowed to board flights into city.

Four new imported Covid-19 cases on Monday take Hong Kong’s infected total to 1,203, with seven related deaths.

It was not immediately clear how the group, at the airport for five days now, was able to board the flight from Dubai, as transit services to the mainland are not allowed.

Coronavirus patient who lived at Luk Chuen House on the Lek Yuen Estate dies at Prince of Wales Hospital on Tuesday.

Carrie Lam says officials on all sides are trying to work around 14-day mandatory quarantine rules, while travellers would also need health certificate showing they are free of coronavirus.

One of nine infected in Sha Tin’s Luk Chuen House, the woman was in stable condition when first admitted to hospital but later transferred to intensive care.

Organisers needed 60,000 votes to call for a citywide work strike, but only 8,943 ballots were cast.

The new cases from the subcontinent, aged nine to 41, up the city’s tally to 1,127 confirmed infections.

Chinese capital has seen spike in cases in recent days and Hong Kong government said it would require those arriving from city to take coronavirus test, but microbiologist Ho Pak-leung says all arrivals should now face mandatory quarantine.