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Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces that Hong Kong will begin offering COVID-19 vaccinations at home for elderly people in the coming weeks in order to increase the vaccination rate.
2022-03-27

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces a citywide testing campaign due to surge of the cases caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. It is planned to test each citizen three times during the campaign.
2022-02-22

Hong Kong reports a record for the third consecutive day of 614 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the territory-wide total of confirmed cases to 16,022.
2022-02-7

Hong Kong and Singapore abandon plans to resume a "travel bubble" for quarantine-free travel between the two cities due to differing COVID-19 policies.
2021-08-19

Hong Kong suspends the import of poultry meat and products from bird flu-affected areas in South Korea, Germany and Poland due to spread of highly pathogenic H5N8 in those areas.
2021-02-19

At least 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy nominees for the September election are disqualified, among them, Dennis Kwok, Joshua Wong, Tiffany Yuen, and three others from the Civic Party. Other nominations were still being reviewed, the government said in a statement expressing support for the disqualifications.
2020-07-30

At least 10 people are injured after fireworks were shot from a moving car into a crowd of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong.
2019-07-31

A double-decker bus overturns near Tai Po in Hong Kong, killing at least 19 people.
2018-02-10

At least 25 people are dead in Hong Kong and southern China after Typhoon Usagi passes through with the storm having killed eight people in the Philippines.
2013-09-23

Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal rules that foreign domestic workers are not allowed to become Hong Kong permanent residents.
2013-03-25