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Health Tips
What disinfectants can we use to fight against the coronavirus?
Health article and healthographics by HKUMed Coronaviruses are covered by a lipid layer called an envelope. By disrupting the envelope,…
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Understanding “Effective Reproduction Number”
Health article and healthographics by HKUMed In light of a recent string of local cases of COVID-19 in Hong Kong,…
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Understanding Fatality Rate of COVID-19 – How Is It Calculated?
Health Article and healthographics by HKUMed Numerous countries around the world are now seeing local outbreaks of COVID-19, and in…
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Events
【Summer Leadership Forum】Global Health Leadership in the Age of COVID-19
Are health professionals ready for the #COVID19 ‘new normal’? And for future pandemics? Hear from Prof Vivian Lin, Dr Takeshi…
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In the News
HKU team says Asian bats likely ‘original host’ of virus
The novel coronavirus is likely to have come from bats, according to the latest study by the HKU. Microbiologists at…
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In the News
Octopus to provide data to HKU researchers on city residents’ movements to check spread of Covid-19
Octopus, e-payment service vendor in Hong Kong has agreed to provide data to researchers from the University of Hong Kong.…
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Rebuilding public trust in science in times of pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the public health experts in universities worldwide more visible than ever before. How are the…
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In the News
Gabriel Leung urges HK government to close restaurants and bars if citizens keep going out
As Hong Kong’s confirmed coronavirus cases keep increasing in the past week, Dr. Gabriel Leung, head of the University of…
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In the News
As coronavirus epidemic worsens globally, here’s how Hong Kong managed to contain it
11 Mar, 2020 UK health minister Nadine Dorries was diagnosed with coronavirus on Wednesday, 11 March, a day after France’s…
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[SCMP] Hong Kong expert claims outbreak is now a pandemic and US death could be ‘tip of the iceberg’
Professor Gabriel Leung, dean of the University of Hong Kong’s (HKU) medical faculty, says only reason WHO has not used…
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