Huge cash injection for Hong Kong universities’ Covid-19 research

Newly funded work to include investigations into how the city brought infections down to nearly zero

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May 1, 2020

Last updated

May 13, 2020

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A technician cultivates lung cells as he preps for research into the infectivity of the SARS-CoV-2 in human lungs at a laboratory at the University of Hong Kong

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