Our COVID-19 Coverage
On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency on the spread of the novel coronavirus – COVID-19 – that originated in Wuhan, Mainland China. COVID-19 has forced countries around the world to take drastic action, from implementing stringent social distancing measures to partial or nationwide lockdowns, as the world battles one of the worst pandemics in human history, and the worst since the Spanish flu in 1918. On this page, we provide regular updates through our conversations with internationally renowned public health experts from Hong Kong and abroad on the latest COVID-19 developments not only in Hong Kong, but also around the world.
For the latest from the Hong Kong S.A.R. Government:
https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/index.html
OUR WEBCASTS
Episode 23: Insights into Germagic to Eliminate SARS-CoV-2
Hamilton Hung, Co-Founder of Germagic, and King Lun Yeung, Director of HKUST-CIL Joint Laboratory of Innovative Environmental Health Technologies, will talk about Germagic, a germicidal technology originating in Hong Kong that can eliminate SARS-CoV-2, and over 100+ viruses and bacteria.
Episode 22: Conversation with Dr. Gigi Gronvall
Dr. Gigi Gronvall, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, talks about serology testing and the Center’s latest report, Developing a National Strategy for SARS-CoV-2 Serosurveys in the United States.
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Episode 21: Conversation on Mental Health with Bhavna Bharvani
Ms. Bhavna Bharvani, Clinical Counselor at Central Minds, diagnoses the unfolding mental health crisis, and how we can together create enduring mental resilience.
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Episode 20: Recovery from COVID-19: Resolve, Resilience and Reflection in the Personal Struggle with COVID-19
Renowned tenor Warren Mok and leading microbiologist Peter Piot share their personal experiences with COVID-19 in conversation with Josette Sheeran, President and CEO of Asia Society.
Episode 19: COVID-19 Updates: Global Pandemic Response in the U.S., Europe and India
Dr. Ashish K. Jha, Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who leads national analysis of key issues around COVID-19 advising policy makers and officials in the United States, sheds light on how governments should respond to a pandemic.
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Episode 18: COVID-19 and Hong Kong Hospital Operations with Prof. Ivan Hung
Have we discovered the cure for COVID-19? Hear from Prof. Ivan Hung, who leads research at The University of Hong Kong into the use of plasma donated by former patients in coronavirus treatments.
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Episode 17: Coronavirus Updates with Prof. Peter Horby
Prof. Peter Horby, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the University of Oxford, provides the latest on the COVID-19 story.
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- https://www.research.ox.ac.uk/Researchers/peter-horby
- https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-29/ISARIC-report-updates-fatality-ra…
Episode 16: Children and COVID-19: Coronavirus Updates with Dr. Jeffrey Burns
How concerned should we for our children, with classes resuming? Hear from Dr. Jeffrey Burns, Chief of Critical Care and Chair of ICU Governance Committee at Boston Children's Hospital.
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Episode 15: Coronavirus Updates with Prof. Honglin Chen and Dr. John P. Cooke
Prof. Honglin Chen from the State Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at The University of Hong Kong and Dr. John P. Cooke from the Houston Methodist Research Institute discuss the latest developments.
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Episode 14: Coronavirus Updates with Dr. Peter Forster
The first infection and spread among humans of COVID-19 occurred between mid-September and early December 2019. Does this mean COVID-19 did not start in Wuhan? Dr. Peter Forster, Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, shares his insights.
Episode 13: Coronavirus Updates with Prof. Peter Doherty
Nobel Laureate in Medicine Peter Doherty underlines his views on the pandemic’s latest developments.
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Episode 12: Coronavirus Updates with Prof. Roberto Bruzzone
Roberto Bruzzone, Co-Director of the HKU-Pasteur Research Pole and Visiting Professor at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong, shares his take on COVID-19.
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Episode 11: Coronavirus Updates with Prof. Rebecca Katz
Prof. Rebecca Katz, Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University Medical Center, gives her take on what is needed to eradicate COVID-19 globally.
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Episode 10: Coronavirus Updates with Dr. Jessica Manning
How are developing countries being impacted? Dr. Jessica Manning, an infectious diseases physician-scientist with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in the United States, provides the answers.
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Episode 9: Coronavirus Updates with Prof. Gabriel Leung
How many waves of COVID-19 cases are we expecting in Hong Kong? How far are we from resuming normal life? Prof. Gabriel Leung, Dean of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong who advises the Hong Kong S.A.R. Government and World Health Organization on COVID-19, imparts his expertise.
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- https://sph.hku.hk/en/about-us/faculty-and-staff/academic-staff/leung,-…
- https://fightcovid19.hku.hk/category/research/
Episode 8: Coronavirus Updates with Prof. David S.C. Hui
Prof. David Hui, who has clinical experience with SARS, MERS and various types of influenza, discusses how we should brace for another peak of COVID-19, as people return to Hong Kong from high-risk areas.
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Episode 7: Coronavirus Updates with Prof. Marc Lipsitch
Are bats really the source of the COVID-19? Is identifying the source relevant at this point? Prof. Marc Lipsitch, Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard University, elaborates.
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Episode 6: Coronavirus Updates with Dr. Wilson Lam
How does COVID-19 compare to SARS? Hear from Dr. Wilson Lam, an infectious disease specialist and frontline doctor during the SARS outbreak in 2003.
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Episode 5: Coronavirus Updates with Prof. Peter Piot
Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases, Prof. Peter Piot, who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976, explains how coronavirus differs from other viruses.
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- https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/piot.peter
- https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/expert-opinion/100-questions-peter-p…
- https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/research-action/covid-19
Episode 4: Coronavirus Updates: Facts from Hong Kong and Beyond
Dr. Nicholas Jewell and Prof. Arthur Reingold from UC Berkeley, Prof. Keiji Fukuda from The University of Hong Kong, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Dr. Jordan Tappero chat about the latest global developments, and data modelling projections and predictions.
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- https://coronavirus.berkeley.edu/
- https://fightcovid19.hku.hk/category/research/
- https://www.gatesfoundation.org/TheOptimist/coronavirus
Episode 3: Coronavirus Updates: Facts from Hong Kong and Beyond
What is unique and not commonly known about COVID-19? Prof. Paul Chan, Clinical Professor and Chairman of the Department of Microbiology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, provides the answers.
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Episode 2: Coronavirus Updates with Michael Levitt, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Prof. Michael Levitt, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and Professor at Stanford School of Medicine, shares the latest updates on the new coronavirus.
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Episode 1: Coronavirus Updates with Prof. Benjamin Cowling
What should the public know about the disease? Hear from Prof. Benjamin Cowling, Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at The University of Hong Kong's School of Public Health.
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