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The European Union unveiled on 18 February what it called a new, more assertive foreign trade policy that signals greater cooperation with Washington and warns of unspecified measures it reserves the right to take against China to blunt “negative spillovers” from the approach Beijing takes to trade and investment.

Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong warned that unemployment remain a problem for years to come, and that it may take more than three years for the jobless rate to drop below 5%

From 1 March, authorities will require every person who enters a government building to use a contact-tracing app or register their personal information.

Hong Kong stocks gained on the first trading day of the Year of the Ox after investors returned from a long holiday weekend, tracking Asia-Pacific markets higher on optimism over a global economic recovery and roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines.

On 31 January, Hong Kong and the central government stopped recognising British National (Overseas) passports [BNOP]

The economy shrank 6.1% in 2020 amid the pandemic, the worst annual economic performance on record

Brussels threatened on Monday to block exports of COVID-19 vaccines outside of the bloc over AstraZeneca’s announcement that deliveries will be reduced for a few weeks

Hong Kong recorded more deaths than births last year for the first time, in what experts said was a warning of an imminent decline in the city’s overall population.

The Pfitzer-Biontech Covid19 vaccine developed by the US and Germany has become the first to apply for an emergency roll-out in Hong Kong and a government panel will decide as early as Monday whether to recommend its use amid confusion over efficacy of the jab from China’s Sinovac.

As the second wave of the pandemic continues, jobs and businesses across Europe are being hit hard. However, many have been cushioned from the worst of the economic fallout by government job retention schemes to keep people in work.

Europe’s weekly COVID-19 infections are now higher than the continent’s first coronavirus peak in March, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.