China Offers to Vaccinate Olympians Against COVID-19
The Chinese foreign affairs minister has offered to vaccinate all Olympians who will participate in the Beijing Winter Olympic game next year, despite the deaths of Hongkongers who received a China-made COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccine diplomacy is one of the main agendas that the Chinese regime has pursued in the past months. However, the efficacy and safety of China-made vaccines is questioned even by Chinese doctors.
The Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry Wang Yi spoke about China’s vaccine diplomacy at a March 7 press conference during the Two Sessions meeting the regime’s most important annual conference.
Serious adverse reactions of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in HK are within the expected range: experts
Chen Qingqing Published: Mar 09, 2021 12:01 AM
Co-convenor of Hong Kong s Expert Committee on Clinical Events Assessment Following COVID-19 Immunization Ivan Hung (C) at a press conference in Hong Kong, south China on March 3, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)
A Hong Kong expert team said Monday that they deemed that the second death case in the city following vaccination of Sinovac vaccines was not related to the vaccine as the autopsy report showed that the cause of death of the recipient, a 55-year-old woman, was myocardial infarction and she had an aortic laceration.
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.