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Ben Kwok April 07, 2021 11:32 You are what you take when it comes to vaccination against Covid-19. I estimate most people in Hong Kong are asked at least three times a day whether you would consider to take Sinovac or BioNTech vaccine. Well, the answer could be political. One would deduct people who have confidence in China would take Sinovac, and those who have more confidence in the western countries would probably take BioNTech. People of younger age tend to prefer BioNTech rather than S...

Concerted effort needed in virus fight January 27, 2021 Chief Executive Carrie Lam On January 25 last year, the first day of the Chinese New Year, after returning to Hong Kong from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, I immediately started to lead the work against the COVID-19 epidemic. In what seems like the blink of an eye, a year has passed. The COVID-19 epidemic continues its global rampage, with confirmed cases approaching 100 million and the death toll exceeding two million. E...

Hong Kong: Mainland-HK COVID-19 meeting held Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung today led expert advisers and government officials to attend a meeting in Shenzhen to exchange views with Mainland experts and officials on the COVID-19 epidemic situation. Hong Kong experts joining the meeting included University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Dean Prof Gabriel Leung, the same faculty’s Department of Microbiology Chair of Infectious Diseases Prof Yuen Kwok-yung and Chinese University o...