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Two employees at Sogo flagship store in Causeway Bay have tested preliminarily positive for Covid-19, prompting mall to close for weekend.

Authorities have added more hospital beds, handed out rapid test kits and will ramp up testing capacity to 200,000 per day.

Animal welfare groups find abandoned hamsters in parks, garbage dumps or even left in the street.

Pet store owner voices concern over possible testing regulations for hamsters, says business with overseas breeders could drop.

The government’s panic-driven effort to attain ‘zero Covid’ is straining our hospitals and driving businesses to the point of collapse. Hong Kong needs a serious cost-benefit analysis of the policy amid evidence of serious, long-term harm being done.

Readers urge Hongkongers to refrain from scapegoating certain groups amid the latest Covid-19 wave, take issue with scaremongering in the media, and lament local universities’ return to online classes.

Four clusters threaten to overwhelm city’s pandemic strategy, with residents returning to living under strict social-distancing measures.

SA is likely to enter the fifth wave of Covid-19 infections in May or sooner, says health minister Joe Phaahla.

Health Minister Joe Phaahla believes South Africa is likely to enter the fifth wave of Covid-19 infections in the middle of May.

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic fifth wave has not been major so far and does not require the supplementation of ICU beds, said, on...