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Chief Executive Mrs Carrie Lam visits sewage monitoring facilities at HKU Lab

02 Feb 2022

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Chief Executive Mrs Carrie Lam visits the Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory at HKU. Professor Tong Zhang of the Department of Civil Engineering explains to her the work of the Lab.
Chief Executive Mrs Carrie Lam visits the Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory at HKU. Professor Tong Zhang of the Department of Civil Engineering explains to her the work of the Lab.

Chief Executive Mrs Carrie Lam visits the Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory at HKU. Professor Tong Zhang of the Department of Civil Engineering explains to her the work of the Lab.

Chief Executive Mrs Carrie Lam visits the Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory at HKU. Professor Tong Zhang of the Department of Civil Engineering explains to her the work of the Lab.
Mrs Lam says the government supports the sewage surveillance research which helps combat the Covid-19 outbreaks in HK. She gives Chinese New Year blessings to staff and students at the Lab.

Mrs Lam says the government supports the sewage surveillance research which helps combat the Covid-19 outbreaks in HK. She gives Chinese New Year blessings to staff and students at the Lab.

Chief Executive Mrs Carrie Lam visits the Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory at HKU
Chief Executive Mrs Carrie Lam visits the Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory at HKU. Professor Tong Zhang of the Department of Civil Engineering explains to her the work of the Lab
Chief Executive Mrs Carrie Lam visits the Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory at HKU
The Chief Executive takes a bird-eye view of the site on Sassoon Road designated for deep technology development at HKU

The Chief Executive takes a bird-eye view of the site on Sassoon Road designated for deep technology development at HKU

The Chief Executive takes a bird-eye view of the site on Sassoon Road designated for deep technology development at HKU

The Chief Executive takes a bird-eye view of the site on Sassoon Road designated for deep technology development at HKU

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The Chief Executive Mrs Carrie Lam visited the Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) today (February 2).

She was accompanied by HKU President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Xiang Zhang. Professor Tong Zhang, of the Department of Civil Engineering and the Lab’s Principal Investigator, briefed Mrs Lam on the work of the Lab. 

The innovative sewage surveillance system developed by Professor Zhang’s team has been widely adopted for tracking the Covid-19 virus and its variants over the territory. Under the joint monitoring scheme with the government, it has been generating great impact in society as an important infectious control measure, particularly in detecting positive cases from sewage rapidly and effectively.

Mrs Lam said the government supported the sewage surveillance research which helped combat the Covid-19 outbreaks in HK. She also gave Chinese New Year blessings to staff and students at the Lab.

Mrs Lam later visited the Jockey Club Building for Interdisciplinary Research at Sassoon Road to take a bird-eye view of the site designated for deep technology development at the University. The 4-hectare site zoned “Green Belt” at Pokfulam was assigned in her latest Policy Address for HKU to construct facilities for deep technology research, as one of the measures to consolidate Hong Kong’s leading position in basic research.

Media enquiries:
Communications and Public Affairs Office, HKU
Ms Melanie Wan (Tel: 2859 2600/ Email: melwkwan@hku.hk)
Ms Rashida Suffiad (Tel: 2857 8555/ Email: rsuffiad@hku.hk)

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