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.
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 |
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 |
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 |
28 Jan, 2021
Press Release: HKUMed updates on real-time population data on vaccine confidence |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
02 Jun, 2020
Press Release: HKUMed WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control Releases Superspreading and Latest Epidemiologic Update of COVID-19 |
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 |
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 |
18 Apr, 2020
HKUMed research examines how Hong Kong managed first wave of COVID-19 without resorting to complete lockdown |
07 Apr, 2020
Podcast: The race for a Coronavirus vaccine with Prof Malik Peiris and Prof Leo Poon |
03 Apr, 2020
Event: Preventing COVID-19 transmission in Hong Kong – An Open Dialogue with Prof Ben Cowling |
31 Mar, 2020
Event: Joint SPH-JMSC workshop for journalists on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases |
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 |
11 Mar, 2020
Press Release: Public health laboratories in more than 40 countries and territories received HKUMed tests for COVID-19 detection |
06 Mar, 2020
Event: Understanding the COVID-19 outbreak - An Open Dialogue with Prof Keiji Fukuda |
06 Mar, 2020
Press Release: HKUMed WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control releases case fatality risk of COVID-19 |
19 Feb, 2020
Are Hot Pots a High Risk Activity? Debunking the Aerosol Transmission Myth |
13 Feb, 2020
Epidemiological research priorities for public health control of COVID-19 outbreak |
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 |
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 |
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 |