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

The conference discussed the experiences and strategies of various countries, including Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, and Australi...Read more

Estimating the time-varying reproductive number, Rt, is critical for monitoring transmissibility of an infectious disease. The impact of imported case...Read more

Background: Various public health and social measures (PHSMs) have been implemented worldwide to fight against COVID-19 pandemic since early 2020. T...Read more

Background The generation time distribution, reflecting the time between successive infections in transmission chains, is one of the fundamental epide...Read more

Superspreading, or overdispersion in transmission, is a feature of SARS-CoV-2 transmission which results in surging epidemics and large clusters of in...Read more

Transmission heterogeneity is a notable feature of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemics, tho...Read more

Background: Various non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were implemented globally to mitigate COVID-19, which could have modulated the transmissio...Read more

Objective: The outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) imposed a substantial health burden in mainland China and remains a global epidem...Read more

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began in Wuhan c...Read more

Background: Hong Kong followed a strict COVID-19 elimination strategy in 2020. We estimated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic responses on all-cause...Read more

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A study by the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) shows that Hong Kong successfully controlled the spread of COVID-19 with less drastic measures compare...Read more

HKUMed researchers found a significant reduction in public hospital admissions and an increase in mortality, particularly from cardiovascular diseases...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

根據香港大學李嘉誠醫學院的一項研究，COVID-19大流行導致腸道細菌中抗生素耐藥基因的增加。該研究發現，在第一波疫情期間，人體腸道微生物中與自然環境相關的放線菌豐富度降低，而抗生素耐藥性基因水平卻有所提高。研究團隊正在進行抗生素耐藥性的綜合病因研究，從各個方面收集樣本和問卷，找到更好的方法以預防細...Read more

香港大學的一個研究團隊分析了香港COVID-19患者的流行病學數據，發現截至4月底的1,038宗確診及疑似個案中，超過一半屬群組個案。最大的群組是酒吧樂隊群組，涉及106人，佔本地個案總數大約三成。團隊同時估計，香港有五至七宗屬於「超級傳播」，並推算八成本地傳播是源自兩成的確診病人。...

The generation time distribution, reflecting the time between successive infections in transmission chains, is a key epidemiological parameter for des...Read more

Controlling transmission in restaurants is an important component of public health and social measures for coronavirus disease. We examined the effect...Read more