South China Morning Post
Hong Kong health authorities were battling an expanding Covid-19 cluster at a high-end Chinese restaurant with the potential to be a “super spreader”, having already ballooned to at least 30 infections, as the city launched its mass vaccination drive on Friday (Feb 26).
The index patient suspected to have triggered the outbreak was a cleaner at Mr Ming’s Chinese Dining at the K11 Musea shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui, they said.
Officials warned that the situation was still “severe” as they confirmed 24 new infections citywide and recorded more than 20 preliminary-positive cases, at least seven of which could not be traced.
HK s vaccine slots booked in one day as city opens reservations
Liu Caiyu and Bai Yunyi Published: Feb 23, 2021 09:48 PM
A Cathay Pacific pilot gets the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine at a community vaccination center in the Hong Kong Central Library on Tuesday, as frontline workers and high-risk groups are the first in line to be vaccinated. Photo: VCG
On Tuesday, the first day that reservations opened for Hong Kong residents to get their COVID-19 vaccines, all slots in the following two week were immediately booked. Observers believe that the city may achieve an immunity barrier by year-end.
As of 4 pm on Tuesday, about 70,000 people had reserved their first and second doses online, and all slots available between Friday and March 11 were taken, according to the regional government website.
Hong Kong's population will be getting vaccinated soon as the first million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, produced by Sinovac Biotech, arrived in the special administrative region from Beijing on Friday.
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