Coronavirus (COVID-19) Collection
A metropolitan-scale, three-dimensional agent-based model to assess the effectiveness of the COVID-19 Omicron wave interventions in a hyperdense city: a case study of Hong Kong
Despite its stringent containment measures, Hong Kong has experienced a most challenging COVID-19 wave due to the Omicron variant (Mallapaty, 2022). Implementing a citywide ‘compulsory universal testing’ (CUT) and a citywide lockdown was a subject of debate in March 2022 (South China Morning Post, 2022).Exported cases were infected on the way: A conjecture derived from analysis on Hong Kong monthly exported COVID-19 cases
During this COVID-19 pandemic, imported cases have played the role of triggering outbreaks in their arrival city and exported cases are used to infer the infection risk in their departure city (Imai et al., 2020; Menkir et al., 2021). Hong Kong, as a hub of international travel, faced this situation in particular. However, we argue that in the current phase of the pandemic, the role of exported cases in inferring the infection risk in their departure city loses its power; we use Hong Kong, an international travel hub, as an example.An exploratory study of factors associated with difficulties in accessing HIV services during the COVID-19 pandemic among Chinese gay and bisexual men in Hong Kong
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its associated implementation of quarantine, social distancing and community containment measures have resulted in the disruption of provision of many social services (Berg-Weger and Morley, 2020; Li et al., 2020; Rundle et al., 2020; Yang et al., 2020). This includes disruption of the provision of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) services that are provided to many socially marginalized groups in society whose vulnerability is exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.Influenza versus COVID-19 cases among influenza-like illness patients in travelers from Wuhan to Hong Kong in January 2020
The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has dominated the world for well over half a year since the early outbreak in Wuhan, China. The pandemic hit Wuhan, Hubei, China hard, and the city had been in lockdown for more than 70 days. Much attention has been focused on estimating the accurate prevalence of COVID-19 cases in Wuhan in January 2020. Even though large-scale serological studies have been conducted, the initial spread of the virus in Wuhan still remains unclear. It seems clear, though, that the COVID-19 outbreak followed the seasonal influenza epidemic.The epidemiology of COVID-19 cases and the successful containment strategy in Hong Kong–January to May 2020
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, with a population of 7.4 million, is a major financial and transport hub located at the southern coast of China and has intimate ties with mainland China and the rest of the world. Having experienced the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong closely monitored the situation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) following the first report in Wuhan on 31 December 2019. In early January 2020, COVID-19 was included as a statutory notifiable disease.Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): From causes to preventions in Hong Kong
An outbreak of pneumonia with unknown etiology emerged in Wuhan of Hubei Province, China on December in 2019. Chinese scientists confirmed that a new coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of pneumonia outbreak. Now, this severe acute respiratory syndrome has been termed as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health of Organization (WHO) (Peng et al., 2020).
