Daily coronavirus infections in Hong Kong continued to stretch into the triple digits as 115 cases emerged on Sunday.
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Personnel from mainland China will come to Hong Kong to help conduct mass Covid-19 testing, it was revealed on Friday night, as the city confirmed another 121 coronavirus cases, the tenth straight day of triple-digit increases in infections.
Four men and a woman were arrested on Wednesday for using forged documents to cheat the government’s continuing education subsidy scheme out of MOP 1.76 million (US$223,000), Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference on Thursday.
Hong Kong registered a record 150 new confirmed Covid-19 cases on Thursday, medical sources said, as the government caved to public pressure and reversed its all-day ban on eating in restaurants.
A 62-year-old Hong Kong man who had worked in Macao since March and returned to Hong Kong on 11 July has tested positive for Covid-19 there.
Local residents’ satisfaction with clothes and footwear shopping scored 71.3 points, an increase of 7.9% from last year, while for restaurant satisfaction, it scored 69.4 points, an increase of 3.6% from last year.
Macao’s hotel guests dropped by 73.5% year-on-year to 1.83 million in the first half of this year, the Statistics and Census Bureau said in a statement today.
Hong Kong recorded about 120 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday the eighth day in a row in which the city had more than 100 new infections.
Due to the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the local economy, local residents’ unemployment rate rose by 0.6 percentage points to 3.5% in the second quarter from the previous quarter.