Campus Health and Safety
HKUST Anti-epidemic Effort - Interesting Figures
On-campus COVID-19 Vaccination Events
The campus is not only a large part of the daily life of our students, staff and family residents but also a unique place to teach about and promote COVID-19 vaccination.
To safeguard our health and for the convenience of university members, HSEO organized, with help from DSTO, CMO, ISO, and ITSC, the following on-campus vaccination events:
| Date of On-campus Vaccination | Vaccine Type | Number of doses administered |
| 23 Jun 2021 | BioNTech | 366 |
| 24 Jun 2021 | Sinovac | 373 |
| 21 Jul 2021 | BioNTech | 360 |
| 22 Jul 2021 | Sinovac | 348 |
| 02 Mar 2022 | Sinovac | 539 |
| 03 Mar 2022 | Sinovac | 256 |
| 16 Mar 2022 | BioNTech | 539 |
| 17 Mar 2022 | BioNTech | 172 |
| Sinovac | 65 | |
| Total | 3018 |
Together, we can help HKUST reach higher COVID-19 vaccination rates.
Test Kits Supply
To provide support to staff and students combating COVID-19, HKUST distributed free Rapid Antigen Test kits to staff and students living on campus to facilitate rapid identification of COVID-19 cases. The number of test kits distributed between September 2021 and September 2022 reached about 144,000. HKUST is committed, in whichever ways we can, to help battle the spread of the disease. Together we prevail!
| Purpose: | Number of test kits distributed |
| Emergency use | 11,600 |
| Needs for covering various campus operations | 32,000 |
| Staff received no vaccination due to medical reason | 1,400 |
| Staff returning to work on campus | 76,000 |
| Undergraduates returning for in-person laboratory teaching session | 12,000 |
| Hall resident and returning non-local students | 11,000 |
| Total | 144,000 |