People with chronic conditions have been missing check-ups as hospitals switched to focusing on Covid-19 patients.
Bookings at premises from beauty parlours to restaurants and cinemas surge as residents embrace a return to some semblance of normal life.
Many operators have had employees change jobs or switch industries during coronavirus shutdown.
Industry professionals estimate business grew by 20 per cent in catering sector as more people dined out during break.
With public beaches and playgrounds closed under city’s social-distancing curbs, residents packed onto ferries to reach outlying destinations.
From April 21, film-goers and cinema staff must have had three vaccine doses in order for food and drinks to be served at venues.
Industry leaders say they are preparing for reopening, but regular rapid-testing requirement for staff could add to costs.
Survey by concern groups finds 90 per cent of tenants in subpar housing in Tsuen Wan say they were overcharged for water by landlords.
Vegetarian dining pioneer Bobsy Gaia is just one of the business owners forced to make the hard choice of shutting their establishments.
German-made BioNTech offers more effective protection in a shorter span of time, says Patients and Healthcare Professionals Rights Association.
Expert says scheme pushed more residents to get vaccinated and that matters more than booking those who flout rules.
Long queues at hospitals put off some elderly patients who chose to go home, only to die later.
Industry leader predicts a looming shutdown of shops in April despite expected relaxation of social-distancing rules.
System uses artificial intelligence to deduce viral load within 20 seconds, based on shades of lines on rapid test kits
Rigid eligibility rules for e-voucher scheme go against the spirit of helping needy, Society for Community Organisation says.
Crowds seen outside Swatch outlets in the city since early hours of Saturday, with some turning a quick profit by reselling the watches at a higher price.
A check by the Post on 43 hotels shows only four of them still have rooms available in April, while at least 33 others only have vacancies after May.
A restaurant industry representative says the government should move faster to lift all restrictions, while an advocate for local bar owners says he is sceptical they will be allowed to reopen given authorities’ ‘flip-flopping’.
Small and medium-sized enterprises, and the unemployed can expect to receive help through the Employment Support Scheme and Temporary Unemployment Relief initiative
Housewife says 93-year-old mother developed skin ulcers after 23-day stay at isolation centre, calling older woman’s experience a ‘nightmare’.
Officials, ritual performers reach consensus to suspend business of repelling bad luck underneath Canal Road Flyover to avoid crowds gathering at weekend.
Some hotels are preparing for the city’s universal testing measures, with some staff being offered double their wages to work front-of-house at isolation facilities.
Sheung Shui slaughterhouse and its smaller Tsuen Wan rival to shut down temporarily on Saturday for disinfection after 183 out of 866 samples tested positive for Covid-19.
The nano flats in Kai Tak are among the 8,926 places of various sizes provided under this year’s Home Ownership Scheme.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that about 30,000 infected patients had been stuck at home as the city races to build isolation facilities.
Chief of catering industry body says business at his restaurant group was down 40 per cent in the wake of the scheme’s introduction on Thursday morning.
Covid-19 pandemic has cast a pall over city, with many still seeing no light at the end of the tunnel.
More small and medium-sized firms will be forced to close down as they have no hope of doing business, warns Hong Kong chamber chief.
A government source says health authorities are planning to move stable, younger patients currently housed at AsiaWorld-Expo to isolation hotels to free up hospital beds.
Some drivers living in districts without Covid-19 infections still banned from getting into Shenzhen despite Guangdong reducing entry ban from 21 to 14 days, industry leader Stanley Chiang says.
