Among persons aged≥60 years in Hong Kong,49%,had received≥2 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine,and vaccination coverage declined with age.During January-March 2022,reported COVID-19-associated deaths rose rapidly in Hong Kong.Among these deaths,96%occurred in persons aged≥60 years;within this ...
Hong Kong will begin to give the COVID-19 vaccine to its residents for free on Feb. 26 as the first 1 million doses from Sinovac Biotech will arrive on Friday afternoon. At a press conference on Thursday, Patrick Nip, Secretary for the Civil Service of the Hong Kong Special Administrative...
Carrie Lam, chief executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), said on Friday that Hong Kong will receive the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021 the earliest. Lam said in a press conference on Friday that the HKSAR government's goal was to provide fre...
We conducted a granular time-to-event analysis of COVID-19 hospitalization data from Hong Kong, and estimated that vaccination could be associated with up to 4.7-day reduced length of stay in hospital based on our study population. Incremental vaccine doses were associated with increasing reduction...
Citizens wearing face masks line up to receive COVID-19 vaccine in Hong Kong, south China, March 16, 2022. On Wednesday, Hong Kong registered 14,454 new COVID-19 cases by nucleic acid tests, and 14,818 additional positive cases through self-reported rapid antigen tests, official data showe...
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HONG KONG, May 21 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Saturday that uninfected individuals aged 18 to 59 who are at higher risk of COVID-19 exposure or with personal needs may choose to receive a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine from now...
More than 3 million people in Hong Kong have taken at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccines, accounting for 44.2 percent of the eligible population. Hong Kong's vaccine rollout started on Feb. 26 and some 2.21 million people have been fully vaccinated, official data showed. ...
Beijing, the capital city of China, is in the temperate region of northern China, whereas the Hong Kong SAR is in a subtropical region. Owing to the unique socioeconomic, climatic, and political characteristics, the influenza circulation pattern during the COVID-19 pandemic in these two areas ...
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Wednesday announced the suspension of COVID-19 vaccinations from a single batch of BioNTech shots over defective packaging.The HKSAR government said the decision came after receiving a report from Fosun International L...