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Professor Yuguo Li, Chair Professor of Building Environment, and his team at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) conducted a series of epidemiological and environmental studies on three important Covid-19 outbreak cases that occurred between January and March in Mainland China and Tokyo, and revealed that poor air ventilation plays a key role in its spread in indoor environments.

In collaboration with the Guangdong CDC, Hunan CDC, Sun Yat-Sen University and Southeast University, the team studied the infection pattern in the cases of a restaurant in Guangzhou and two Hunan buses in the Mainland, and the Diamond Princess Cruise in Tokyo.

Professor Li will hold a media conference via Zoom tomorrow (July 15) to reveal the findings and recommendations on measures to be taken in indoor environments to enhance ventilation and filtration.

Professor Li is an expert in ventilation of indoor environments with a focus on environmental transmission of diseases. During the SARS outbreak in 2003, Professor Li and a group of mechanical engineering experts at HKU developed an advanced airflow mechanistic model with computational fluid dynamics simulations and detailed thermo-fluid analyses to track and explain the main infection pattern and characteristics of the outbreak at Amoy Gardens and at Ward 8A of the Princess of Wales Hospital.

Details of the Zoom conference as below:
Date: July 15, 2020 (Wednesday)
Time: 10:30am
Language: Putonghua and English

ZOOM live: https://hku.zoom.us/s/92115344455
Meeting ID: 9211 5344 455

A press release (embargoed) will be sent to the media at 10am tomorrow.

Media enquiries:
Ms Celia Lee, Faculty of Engineering, HKU (Tel: 3917 8519; Email: leecelia@hku.hk) or
Miss Bonnie Tsang, Faculty of Engineering, HKU (Tel: 3917 1924; Email: bonniepy@hku.hk)