Our Innovative Sewage Testing Tool for SARS-CoV-2 was awarded the Gold Medal !This tool has been successfully implemented to assist the Government in uncovering hidden cases! Led by Tong Zhang with Prof. Leo Lit Man Poon, Prof. Malik Peiris, Prof. Gabriel Leung, Dr. Hein Min Tun

Congratulations to our team! Soooooo proud!!!👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉

Our work in Hong Kong is highlighted by Nature News as a use case of sewage surveillance to combat COVID-19! nature.com/articles/d4158…

Our first WBE work has been published!!!👏🎉💪

An analysis of 10.2 petabases of sequence information from 5.7 million samples leads to the discovery of 131,957 novel RNA viruses. Enabled by Serratus, a cloud computing infrastructure for sequence alignment at the petabase scale. #NBThighlight nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our new publication about the use of WBE to control Delta outbreak in Hong Kong! 👍👍👍

Our work about SARS-CoV-2 virus concentration and RNA extraction method evaluation is finally out!!! 🥳🥳🥳Looking forward to your comments.😀😀😀 authors.elsevier.com/a/1edweB8ccuf3…

Sewage surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 virus in the 4th wave of Hong Kong. This collaborative work led by Tong Zhang together with HKU Public Health and the government demonstrated its effectiveness for finding previously unsuspected patients.

Congrats to Prof. Zhang and all team members🥳

HK experience of using wastewater for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 circulation: SARS-CoV-2 concentration correlated significantly with the daily case number. SARS-CoV-2 viral load in wastewater reflects the spread of virus in community. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our new work has been accepted🥰This method could help to increase the testing capacity of most laboratories for wastewater surveillance work!😀 A rapid, high-throughput, and sensitive PEG-precipitation method for S... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

“There’s still a lot unknown,”......“I think there’s a steep learning curve at the moment: when we detect something, what does it mean?” We still have lot to learn from wastewater studies! #wastewater_surveillance HKU Public Health Tong Zhang nature.com/articles/d4158…