COVID-19: How HK managed the first wave without a complete lockdown
21 Apr 2020
byDr Margaret Shi
Public health interventions and population behavioural changes have helped Hong Kong reduce the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) without resorting to a complete lockdown, and are also likely to have led to a substantial reduction in influenza transmission in early February 2020, an observational study by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has shown.