Asia-Pacific medical experts offer insight from front lines of Covid-19 battle in online discussion with Post, other newsrooms
- WHO adviser and early researcher into the coronavirus among those who joined the virtual roundtable
- The discussion aired on Friday at noon on the Post’s Facebook page
The South China Morning Post has joined two other leading Asia-Pacific newsrooms in Singapore and Sydney for the world’s first international Facebook Watch media event to analyse and share lessons from the front lines of the war against Covid-19.
The 45-minute show, which was broadcast on Friday at noon Hong Kong time, features interviews with renowned local and international experts who took questions from some of the region’s most experienced journalists as well as from viewers.
Titled Covid Frontline, the show is now available on demand through Facebook Watch.
The experts include Professor David Hui Shu-cheong of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an authority on respiratory diseases and a top health adviser to the city’s government, and Professor John Nicholls of the University of Hong Kong, a veteran pathologist behind breakthroughs in studying the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) outbreak of 2003, and now the coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
Also part of the discussion are Professor Alexander Cook from the National University of Singapore’s school of public health, Australia’s Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, an adviser to the World Health Organisation, and Professor Sanjaya Senanayake of the Australian National University.
