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Unvaccinated four-year-old girl infected with influenza A died at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan.

Marcus Lum The refund arrangement for semi-urgent and non-urgent patients seeking private doctors after long waits at emergency rooms is not...

Charlotte Wu The Hospital Authority has allocated an additional HK$890 million to public hospitals to combat the flu peak expected from Janu...

Coronavirus: Hong Kong 'to ease isolation rules' for infected travellers, with release on fifth day instead of seventh Hong Kong residents and incoming travellers infected with Covid-19 can be released on the fifth day of isolation, instead of the seventh, from Friday if they return negative results via rapid antigen tests on the fourth and fifth day, health officials have...

Overseas arrivals in Hong Kong could be spared hotel quarantine if they took daily nucleic tests for Covid-19 and the results were delivered in under eight hours, a top health expert suggested, as the city reported just under 3,000 new infections on Saturday (July 9). Professor Ivan Hung Fan-ngai, chief of the infectious diseases division of the University of Hong...

Crowds of critically ill patients, low oxygen supplies and poor hygienic conditions were among scenes reported by some public health care staff as Hong Kong struggles with its worst coronavirus outbreak to date. The Post talked to health care workers who shared their distressing experiences at public hospitals amid the fifth wave, along with their frustrations at being unable to...

Across the country, indoor mask requirements in blue states are falling like dominoes as COVID cases drop. Latest news.

Across the country, indoor mask requirements in blue states are falling like dominoes as COVID cases drop. Latest news.

While disabled people and certain age groups are exempt from the new policy that starts from today, an NGO says the rule may hurt the homeless and others without smartphones.