Members of Apasl viral elimination taskforce (in no particular order): George Lau, Humanity and Health Clinical Trial Center, Humanity and Health Medical Group, Hong Kong SAR, China; Masao Omata, Yamanashi Hospitals (Central and Kita) Organization, Kofu-shi, Yamanashi, Japan; Jidong Jia, Liver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; Hui Zhuang, Department of Microbiology and Centre for Infectious Diseases, Peking University Health Science Centre, Beijing, China; Yu-Mei Wen, Key Laboratory Medical Molecular Virology, Ministry of Education/Health, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Xinxin Zhang, Department of Infectious Disease, Research Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; Jin Mo Yang, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Vincent’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea; Tawesak Tanwandee, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand; Diana Payawal, Department of Medicine, Cardinal Santos Medical Center, Mandaluyong, Philippines; Saeed Hamid, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; SK Sarin, Rakhi Maiwall, Manoj Kumar, Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India; Jing Chen, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Dong Ji, Senior Department of Hepatology, Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China; Wenhong Zhang, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Medical Center for Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Biosafety Emergency Response, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Fusheng Wang, Treatment and Research Center for Infectious Diseases, The Fifth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Beijing China; Jiangao Fan, Center for Fatty Liver, Department of Gastroenterology, Xin Hua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; Lungen Lu, Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; Xiaoguang Dou, Department of Infectious Diseases, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China; Xiaolong Qi, Center of portal hypertension, Department of radiology, Zhongda Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China; Qin Ning, Department and Institute of Infectious Disease, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China; Ming-Lung Yu, Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, College of Medicine and Center for Liquid Biopsy and Cohort Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan & School of Medicine and Doctoral Program of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medicine and Center of Excellence for Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Jacob George, School of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; George BB Goh, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore; Sang Hoon Ahn, Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Gastroenterology, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Rino Alvani Gani, Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia, Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia; Mohd Ismail Merican, Ministry of Health, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; Khin Maung Win, Yangon GI & Liver Centre, Yangon, Myanmar; Oidov Baatarkhuu, Department of Infectious Diseases, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Mongolia; Hasmik Ghazinyan, Department of Hepatology, Nork Clinical Infectious Hospital (CJSC), Yerevan, Armenia; Manal H El-Sayed, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Research Center, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Anuchit Chutaputti, Department of Medicine, Section of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Phramongkutklao Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand; Phunchai Charatcharoenwitthaya, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand; Pei-jer Chen, Jia-Horng Kao, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Rosmawati Mohamed, Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Rakesh Aggarwal, Department of Gastroenterology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India; Alexander Thompson, St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Hong You, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; Hong Ren, Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute for Viral Hepatitis, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China; Jian Sun, Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China; Yoon Jun Kim, Department of Internal Medicine and Liver Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Grace Wong, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics; Medical Data Analytics Centre (MDAC) & Center for Liver Health, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; Fu Gao, CAS Key laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology & Immunology, Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Gang Li, Department of Infectious Diseases, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; Jun-Qi Niu, Department of Hepatology, Center for Pathogen Biology and Infectious Diseases, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China; Yu Wang, Chinese Foundation for Hepatitis Prevention and Control, China; Zhi-Liang Gao, Department of Infectious Diseases, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.