Hong Kong gets mainland vaccines
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MATTHEW Cheung, chief secretary for administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, said yesterday that the arrival of the first batch of mainland-manufactured COVID-19 vaccines in Hong Kong will not only strengthen Hong Kong’s anti-epidemic work, but also help people to return to normal life.
Cheung said in his blog that the central government attached great importance to Hong Kong’s epidemic situation and cared deeply about Hong Kong people’s health. The first batch of 1 million doses of vaccines produced by Sinovac Biotech arrived in Hong Kong from Beijing on Friday, marking a new milestone in Hong Kong’s fight against COVID-19.
The HKSAR government has launched a territory-wide free COVID-19 vaccination program and priority vaccination will be arranged for five groups of people, including health-care staff, elderly people and people providing essential public services, Cheung said, urging people to actively participate in it.
The program will open for online appointments starting from tomorrow. People can receive the jabs at five community vaccination centers and 18 general outpatient clinics of Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority starting from February 26.
More than a thousand private doctors participating in the program are also expected to administer the Sinovac vaccine before mid-March, Cheung added.
Cheung also said that the first batch of 1 million doses of the Fosun Pharma/BioNTech vaccine are expected to arrive by the end of this month and people can receive the jabs at 24 community vaccination centers.
Meanwhile, the first shipment of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Mexico City on Saturday.
Around 200,000 doses arrived about a week after health authorities announced that Mexico’s Federal Commission for Protection Against Health Risks had authorized emergency use for the Sinovac and CanSino Biologics vaccines.
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