HKUST activates an emergency management action plan for prevention of the disease and monitoring of cases. Initiatives include convening the SARS Task Group of the HKUST Emergency Management Task Force, the launch of the SARS Bulletin on the University's website, a rigorous campus cleaning program, a 24-hour hotline for health enquiries and establishment of a temporary segregation facility.

Hong Kong Government suspends classes in schools.

WHO issues travel advisory for Hong Kong.

Classes resume but faculty are encouraged to replace regular lectures and tutorials with Internet communication. Lectures are archived to enable students to retrieve them at any time with CD-ROMs available for students without home access to the Internet.

The HKUST Students' Union launches the Healthy Life Ambassador Campaign, to alert students to the need for them to care for their health and follow precautionary measures. A special promotion counter is set up to distribute pamphlets and give advice.

The Survey Research Center, Division of Social Science, conducted a telephone survey on 'Public Responses to the SARS Outbreak in Hong Kong', one week before WHO lifted its travel alert against Hong Kong.

The University organizes a panel discussion between faculty and researchers and frontline medical staff to learn more about the experiences of those fighting SARS and to highlight areas where HKUST's research expertise could help halt the disease. Such areas include the development of fast, cheap diagnosis kits, drug vaccines, ventilation systems that stop the virus spreading, and mathematical and economic models to predict the effect of future outbreaks.

The University's Education Development Program co-organized a two- part series of public presentations and discussions about SARS, aided by Civic Exchange and the Hong Kong Science Museum. A presentation team of professors and experts from HKUST and a representative from the medical field explained a variety of SARS- related issues to the public.

Hong Kong removed from WHO list of areas with recent local transmission of SARS.