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Authorities to move patients in stable condition out of hospital and into community isolation facilities or their homes, health minister says.

Readers criticise the government’s decision to bring forward the school summer holiday to aid its mass Covid-19 testing operation, call for Omicron to be treated differently to Delta and other high-risk variants, and ask why zero-Covid measures weren’t applied more stringently in care homes.

Bangkok - 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,

Readers question whether the city could have done more to prepare for its latest and worst Covid-19 outbreak, call for more help from the mainland, and highlight how delays by officials are keeping people in isolation for longer than required.

The remarks came after Hospital Authority chairman Henry Fan was criticised on mainland social media for his perceived reluctance to bring in professionals from across the border.

What were Hong Kong’s leaders doing in the month before the Omicron onslaught that they must have known would come? They were caught up in how “partygate” could have brought the government into disrepute, instead of preparing the health care system to cope.

Almost 90 per cent of the COVID-19 fatalities caused by the fifth wave of the pandemic occurred among unvaccinated patients, reported local media citing Hong Ko

The scheme will allow the city’s overstretched ambulance service to divert cases to the designated bus fleet for transport from their residences to isolation facilities.

Almost 90 per cent of the COVID-19 fatalities caused by the fifth wave of the pandemic occurred among unvaccinated patients, reported local media citing Hong Ko

Fathers disappointed they cannot be with partners for babies’ arrival, after Hospital Authority reinstate ban on February 16.