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Questions of employers’ rights in relation to testing and vaccination are common. Just how far should you have the right to make decisions about your own health if in doing so you may endanger that of others? Here are answers to a couple of questions on this raised at our webinar last week.

With an extension of social-distancing measures, Hong Kong’s leader has appealed for calm and dismissed any connection between the spread of Covid-19 and race or ethnicity.

Mandatory testing area extended January 15, 2021 To cut the COVID-19 transmission chain in Yau Ma Tei and Jordan as soon as possible, the Government today announced it has extended compulsory testing to a specified area in the district.   The area is bounded by Nathan Road to its east, Kansu Street to its north, Ferry Street to its west and Jordan Road to its south.   The Government said it noticed confirmed cases have been recently found in Yau Ma Tei and Jordan over a short period, adding...

Hong Kong: Care home staff must undergo tests Staff of residential care homes for the elderly (RCHEs), residential care homes for the disabled (RCHDs) and nursing homes are required to undergo the second round of nucleic acid tests for COVID-19 between December 15 and 28. The Secretary for Food & Health issued the compulsory testing notice on December 11. Such people include those who are employed by and will be on duty at RCHEs, RCHDs, nursing homes and day service units attached to the prem...