COVID-19
HKU School of Public Health has developed a dedicated webpage on COVID-19 at
A special video series called Voices from the COVID-19 Frontlines has been launched in April 2020, which features stories of our internationally renowned inhouse experts and scientists housed in HKU School of Public Health.
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25 Nov, 2022
HKUMed researchers found a reduction in hospitalisations and a concurrent increase in deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 in Hong Kong: implications for healthcare planning during public health emergencies |
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21 May, 2021
Press Release: HKUMed demonstrates the mechanisms of vascular damage in SARS-CoV-2 infection, and shows how Imatinib may be a potential treatment for COVID-19 induced lung injury and vascular diseases |
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10 May, 2021
Press Release: A Global Study Led by CU Medicine and HKUMed Discovers a Hepatitis C Virus Drug as Potent Treatment for COVID-19 |
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28 Jan, 2021
Press Release: HKUMed updates on real-time population data on vaccine confidence |
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21 Sep, 2020
Press Release: HKUMed researchers found local superspreading featured predominantly in overall SARS-CoV-2 transmission during the first and second wave in Hong Kong: implications for continuing social restriction |
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03 Sep, 2020
Press Release: HKUMed WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control updates on the Universal Community Testing Programme (UCTP) and vaccine procurement |
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18 Aug, 2020
Press release: HKUMed researchers discovered that ORF8 and ORF3b are major targets of SARS-CoV-2 humoral immune response and can be used for more specific testing of COVID-19 infection |
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22 Jul, 2020
Press release: HKUMed research suggested that the serial interval of SARS-CoV-2 can be shortened substantially over time by non-pharmaceutical interventions |
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02 Jun, 2020
Press Release: HKUMed WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control Releases Superspreading and Latest Epidemiologic Update of COVID-19 |
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14 May, 2020
Press Release: HKUMed researchers studied the modes of transmission of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and discovered a mechanism that may explain the temporary loss of sense of smell by using a golden hamster animal model |
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08 May, 2020
Press Release: HKUMed researchers discovered novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) can infect more efficiently than SARS-CoV in human airways and eyes, implicating that eyes may be an important route of SARS-CoV-2 human infection |
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18 Apr, 2020
HKUMed research examines how Hong Kong managed first wave of COVID-19 without resorting to complete lockdown |
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07 Apr, 2020
Podcast: The race for a Coronavirus vaccine with Prof Malik Peiris and Prof Leo Poon |
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03 Apr, 2020
Event: Preventing COVID-19 transmission in Hong Kong – An Open Dialogue with Prof Ben Cowling |
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31 Mar, 2020
Event: Joint SPH-JMSC workshop for journalists on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases |
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20 Mar, 2020
Press Release: HKUMed WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control releases real-time situation report by the instantaneous effective reproductive number (Rt) of COVID-19 |
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11 Mar, 2020
Press Release: Public health laboratories in more than 40 countries and territories received HKUMed tests for COVID-19 detection |
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06 Mar, 2020
Event: Understanding the COVID-19 outbreak - An Open Dialogue with Prof Keiji Fukuda |
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06 Mar, 2020
Press Release: HKUMed WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control releases case fatality risk of COVID-19 |
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19 Feb, 2020
Are Hot Pots a High Risk Activity? Debunking the Aerosol Transmission Myth |
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13 Feb, 2020
Epidemiological research priorities for public health control of COVID-19 outbreak |
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27 Jan, 2020
Press Release: HKUMed WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control releases real-time nowcast on the likely extent of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, and forecasts domestic and international spread – UPDATE |
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22 Jan, 2020
HKU Prof Malik Peiris proposed as advisor to International Health Regulations Emergency Committee for Pneumonia due to the Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV |
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21 Jan, 2020
Press Release: HKUMed WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control releases real-time nowcast on the likely extent of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, domestic and international spread with the forecast for chunyun |
