The Latest Breaking News from Hong Kong

U.S. CDC says unvaccinated travelers should avoid Hong Kong travel

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday recommended unvaccinated travelers avoid travel to Hong Kong over rising COVID-19 cases.

Reuters · Feb 28, 2022

Ping An’s Fintech Unit Files for Hong Kong Share Trading

OneConnect proposes listing its New York-traded stock in the city without selling fresh shares or raising funds

Caixin Global · Feb 28, 2022

What Nio Investors Should Know About Imminent Hong Kong IPO: Secondary Listing, No Stock Sale, Singapore Plans And More

Nio, Inc.'s (NYSE: NIO) Hong Kong initial public offering plan is finally falling into place.

Benzinga · Feb 28, 2022

Virus-hit Hong Kong considering lockdown

Hong Kong may impose a China-style hard lockdown that confines people to their homes, authorities signalled Monday, with the city's zero-Covid strategy in tatters and bodies piling up in hospitals.

Bangkok Post · Feb 28, 2022

Hong Kong international schools end confusion over term dates

Hong Kong's international schools can maintain their original term dates, the government said on Monday, a welcome relief for many in the international community, some of whom had planned to leave the city amid widespread confusion.

Reuters · Feb 28, 2022

Hong Kong mortuaries hit capacity as COVID deaths climb

Facilities for storing dead bodies at hospitals and public mortuaries in Hong Kong are at maximum capacity due to a record number of COVID-19 fatalities, the Hospital Authority said on Monday, as officials battle to control a surge in cases.

Reuters · Feb 28, 2022

Hong Kong reports record daily COVID cases and 83 deaths

Hong Kong reported a record 26,026 daily COVID-19 infections on Sunday and 83 deaths, as an outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant overwhelms healthcare facilities and proves hard to control.

Reuters · Feb 27, 2022

The big picture: the geometry of social distancing

Jason Au’s stark but strangely tender image from a sunlit Hong Kong mall sums up our Covid times

The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2022

Hong Kong's success in fending off COVID comes back to haunt

For two years, Hong Kong successfully insulated most of its residents from COVID-19, even going nearly three months late last year without a single locally spread case

The Independent UK · Feb 26, 2022

Hong Kong allows COVID home testing as daily cases soar

Hong Kong health authorities said on Saturday they would adjust COVID testing procedures to allow some people to test from home to ease long queues at designated testing centers, as the city's outbreak proves increasingly hard to control.

Reuters · Feb 26, 2022