Hong Kong researchers have been granted HK$100 million for studies focusing on the coronavirus. Photo: EPA-EFE
Hong Kong researchers have been granted HK$100 million for studies focusing on the coronavirus. Photo: EPA-EFE
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong researchers get HK$100 million in grants to look into origins of Covid-19, effectiveness of additional vaccine doses

  • One team will comb through collection of animal samples said to be among world’s largest in effort to trace origins of Covid-19
  • Another will study transmissibility, reproduction rates of major variants of concern

Chan Ho-him
Chan Ho-him

Updated: 11:01pm, 13 Jul, 2021

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Hong Kong researchers have been granted HK$100 million for studies focusing on the coronavirus. Photo: EPA-EFE
Hong Kong researchers have been granted HK$100 million for studies focusing on the coronavirus. Photo: EPA-EFE
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