Yuen Kwok-yung Quotes

Yuen Kwok-yung GBS JP is a Hong Kong microbiologist, physician and surgeon. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians , Surgeons and Pathologists . After years of clinical and laboratory training, he established the infectious disease service and rapid molecular diagnosis for cytomegalovirus and tuberculosis at the Queen Mary Hospital, the teaching hospital of the University of Hong Kong. His major research interest is on microbial hunting and novel microbes in emerging infectious diseases. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. December 1956
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Famous Yuen Kwok-yung Quotes

“If local (2019-nCoV) transmission is indeed established, that could be very dangerous, and Hong Kong can become another Wuhan.”

Source: Yuen Kwok-yung (2020) cited in " 'Hong Kong in danger of becoming another Wuhan' https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1506184-20200202.htm" on rthk.hk, 2 February 2020.

“The local (COVID-19) transmission chain (in Hong Kong) has begun (as of 6 February 2020), and if we do nothing to control it, Hong Kong will become another mainland city that has suffered lots of cases.”

Source: Yuen Kwok-yung (2020) cited in " Coronavirus: community outbreak declared in Hong Kong as government prepares to quarantine mainland Chinese entering city in hotels and facilities https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3049297/coronavirus-community-outbreak-declared-hong-kong" on South China Morning Post, 6 February 2020.

“The coronavirus in SARS or the coronavirus in MERS are in the same family of virus with the new (COVID-19) coronavirus.”

Yuen Kwok-yung (2020) cited in " China coronavirus: Hong Kong professor Yuen Kwok-yung says effectiveness of drugs could be judged within weeks, with tests due to start in city https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3048034/china-coronavirus-hong-kong-professor-yuen-kwok" on South China Morning Post, 29 January 2020.

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