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

香港大學公共衞生學院的胡子奇教授分享了他的團隊在數學建模方面的工作，以理解和預測傳染病的趨勢，特別是在新冠肺炎疫情期間。他討論了嚴格的社區隔離措施的重要性以及隨著社交互動增加，可能出現的第六波感染。...

香港大學醫學院舉行了關於武漢肺炎可能傳播程度的即時預報發布會。病毒的基本再生數為2.13，預計疫情每6.2天翻倍。研究表明，除武漢外，其他主要中國城市可能存在自我持續的人與人之間的傳播。研究人員建議政府采取更多實質性和嚴厲的措施來限制人口流動。...

1月21日，香港大學醫學院世衞傳染病流行病學及控制合作中心召開記者會，討論武漢新型冠狀病毒在春運期間的國內與國際可能傳播程度。梁卓偉教授和Joseph Wood教授展示了他們的研究，包括對疫情進行回顧、實時預測和未來預測。他們還介紹了一個新的流行病學數學模型，可以幫助衛生部門預測超級傳播事件。...

在這次公開講座中，香港大學的胡子奇教授討論了大數據如何整合到傳染病建模中，以及如何用於監測和預測COVID-19的傳播。他還談到了數字文化在幫助和阻礙疫情控制工作中的作用。講座涵蓋了從Facebook、Google、騰訊和蘋果等公司使用的數據，以及使用這些數據的挑戰和局限性。...

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

During the COVID-19 pandemic, more than ever, data science has become a powerful weapon in combating an infectious disease epidemic and arguably any f...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

Serological testing for SARS-CoV-2 has enormous potential to contribute to COVID-19 pandemic response efforts. However, the required performance chara...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

香港大学的一项最新研究显示，接种3剂复必泰或科兴疫苗后，短期内预防感染的有效性分别为48%和30%，第4剂的有效性比第3剂更强。研究还估计，香港自去年1月至7月期间，共有45%的人口，即约330万人曾感染Omicron变异病毒株。...

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

In this talk, I will discuss two of the COVID-19 nowcasting projects in my group that help informed the Hong Kong government on its pandemic control p...Read more

We report surveillance conducted in 217 pestiferous rodents in Hong Kong for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We did not ...Read more