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

TechTalk held a forum where engineering researchers discussed innovation-related topics. Dr. Kathy Leung from the School of Public Health spoke about ...Read more

Background: Since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019, various public health and social measures (PHSMs) have been used to suppress an...Read more

IntroductionThe SARS-CoV-2 lineages carrying the amino acid change D614G have become the dominant variants in the global COVID-19 pandemic. By June 20...Read more

Two new SARS-CoV-2 lineages with the N501Y mutation in the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein spread rapidly in the United Kingdom. We estim...Read more

Background: Since Dec 31, 2019, the Chinese city of Wuhan has reported an outbreak of atypical pneumonia caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nC...Read more

BACKGROUND: The initial cases of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–infected pneumonia (NCIP) occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019 an...Read more

Hong Kong utilized an elimination strategy with intermittent use of public health and social measures and increasingly stringent travel regulations to...Read more

武漢解封後，人們關注內地是否會出現新一輪疫情。香港大學公共衛生學院的團隊在醫學雜誌《刺針》上發表了一篇研究，發現自1月23日武漢封城以來，湖北以外地區的病毒即時繁殖率降低並維持在“一”以下，表明疫情正在逐漸減退。然而，團隊擔心過快放寬控制措施可能會帶來第二波疫情。專家還指出，人類尚未產生群體免疫，加...Read more

Digital proxies of human mobility and physical mixing have been used to monitor viral transmissibility and effectiveness of social distancing interven...Read more

An international research team from the University of Hong Kong, the Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, and the Centre for Immunology & Infectio...Read more

Diverse patterns of COVID-19 epidemics have been observed in populations with varied social demographics, vaccination coverages, past waves of outbrea...Read more

We tracked the effective reproduction number (R) of the predominant severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant Omicron BF.7 ...Read more

Hong Kong employed a strategy of intermittent public health and social measures alongside increasingly stringent travel regulations to eliminate domes...Read more

Background: Stimulation of immunity by vaccination may elicit adverse events. There is currently inconclusive evidence on the relationship between her...Read more

Background: In view of emerging variants of concern (VOCs), we aimed to evaluate the impact of various allocation strategies of COVID-19 vaccines and ...Read more

Background: The ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has major impacts on health systems, the economy and society. Assessing infection atta...Read more