Despite the easing of lockdowns, questions remain about whether the COVID-19 virus is airborne. The term refers to the transmission of a pathogen thro...Read more

Dr. Nancy Leung Hiu-lan, lead author of the highly cited studyRespiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks, discusses the i...Read more

Background: Whether hospitalized patients benefit from COVID-19 oral antivirals is uncertain. Objective: To examine the real-world effectiveness of mo...Read more

Objectives: Older adults have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. While COVID-19 vaccines are effect...Read more

Hong Kong experienced a surge of Omicron BA.2 infections in early 2022, resulting in one of the highest per-capita death rates of COVID-19. The outbre...Read more

We studied 2780 adults in Hong Kong who received CoronaVac inactivated virus vaccine (Sinovac) and BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine (“Comirnaty”, BioNTech/Fosun ...Read more

A fast-spreading SARS-CoV-2 variant identified in the United Kingdom in December 2020 has raised international alarm. We estimate that, in 16 out of 1...Read more

Before January 22, 2020, only one pediatric case of COVID-19 was reported in mainland China1,2. However, a retrospective surveillance study3 identifie...Read more

We identified seasonal human coronaviruses, influenza viruses and rhinoviruses in exhaled breath and coughs of children and adults with acute respirat...Read more

港大研究團隊發現，「復必泰」疫苗產生的新冠病毒抗體水平顯著高於科興疫苗。該團隊由高本恩教授領導，招募了1,400多名醫護人員，初步得出93人的數據，其中63人接種「復必泰」，30人接種科興。研究發現，「復必泰」疫苗在第一劑後抗體水平明顯上升，第二劑後進一步上升；而科興疫苗在第一劑後僅出現低水平抗體，...Read more

Hong Kong's daily COVID-19 cases reached a new high of 614 on Monday. The University of Hong Kong's Ben Cowling discusses whether this fifth wave of i...Read more

Dr. Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong, said that the discovery of two imported cases of a new COVID-19 variant in Hong Kon...Read more

Ben Cowling, Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the School of Public Health HKU, said in an interview with CMG's Zhu Dan that China has b...Read more

The panel discussion focuses on the health lessons learned from Hong Kong's response to COVID-19, the management of public transport, and the coping s...Read more

Benjamin Cowling from the University of Hong Kong discusses the duration of protection from coronavirus vaccines and the potential need for booster sh...Read more

香港稍微放寬社交距離措施，允許餐廳每枱最多12人，但街外限聚令仍維持不多於4人。政府內部曾討論進一步放寬措施，但未有時間表。香港政府的防疫措施法律基礎是《預防及控制疾病條例》下的「公共衛生緊急狀態」。一些專家質疑現時是否仍屬緊急狀態。政府尚未宣布放寬邊境限制以容許11月的金融峰會。...

香港報告首宗猴痘個案，一名30歲男子從美國和菲律賓返回後測試呈陽性。該男子被隔離在酒店中，並未進入社區。政府已啟動最低級別的應變計劃，預計疫苗將於本月抵達。專家表示，檢疫措施無法防止潛伏期長的疾病，建議採取“0+7”計劃。...

香港和中國內地可能在今年底恢復小規模的邊境通行，對於探望老人、參加葬禮和在廣東省的商務需求實行配額制度。預計明年6月全面開放邊境。香港政府透露了更多細節，包括可能分階段開放大灣區的九個城市。通關條件包括接種疫苗、48或72小時內的新冠病毒陰性檢測結果以及使用內地健康碼。目前尚無關於內地居民來港的安排...Read more

香港大學李嘉誠醫學院正在收集新冠疫苗的功效、副作用，以及對不同群體的影響，並探討不同疫苗方案，例如混合疫苗和接種3劑疫苗等。研究人員從不同地方搜集數據，包括社區疫苗接種中心，市民可報名提供血液樣本。他們還測試志願者的血液樣本，以了解抗體變化和疫苗效果。...