New Crown Pneumonia│Hong Kong Government allocates 111 million yuan to Hong Kong University, Zhongda University to study virus transmission, detection and prevention

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Written by Deng Yinglin

2020-04-27 17:03

The New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic continues. The Food and Drug Administration announced today (27th) that it has approved a total of 111 million yuan in the medical and health research fund under its jurisdiction to support the 26 schools of the New Coronary Pneumonitis Medical research projects, including research on virus transmission and infectivity, as well as effective detection, monitoring, prevention strategies and treatment methods. The Bureau estimates that the study will last for one to two years.

The Medical and Health Research Fund of the Food and Drug Administration will entrust CUHK and HKU to conduct 26 studies, including research and development of vaccines and new antiviral drugs, and conduct serum epidemiological studies on the new coronavirus in the community to explore the attributes and characteristics of the virus. Spread, infection and effective treatment intervention methods; also discuss the early detection system, evaluation and response measures of the outbreak in Hong Kong.

If the vaccine is successfully developed, it will take one to two years to be tested in adult healthy people

The Food and Drug Administration said that the vaccines developed will be produced in large quantities and tested on healthy adult volunteers; while real-time serum epidemiological studies in the community can help to infer the number of people with asymptomatic infections, group immunity and immune response. The duration will help decision makers to formulate prevention and control measures (such as relaxing or continuing to reduce social contacts) in the long run, and assist in assessing needs when successfully developing vaccines. The Bureau estimates that the study will last for one to two years.

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Secretary for Food and Health Chen Zhaoshi said that the Hong Kong government has always supported specific commissioned research projects to respond to health-threatening emergencies, such as the outbreak of SARS in 2003 and swine flu in 2009. It is believed that this commissioned research project can bring scientific knowledge and empirical evidence to combat the epidemic situation in a timely manner. Because there are still many unknowns about the spread and diagnosis of New Coronavirus, the Bureau will continue to invite other universities and two medical schools to submit new research proposals.

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