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HK to issue detailed COVID-19 vaccination guidelines as early as Friday following deaths
Liu Caiyu Published: Mar 11, 2021 09:43 PM
Residents wait to get vaccinated as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region starts mass COVID-19 vaccination on Friday. The Hong Kong government has arranged five centers among residential communities and 18 general clinics to inoculate residents. Photo: cnsphoto
As soon as Friday, the Hong Kong regional government will issue detailed guidelines, including blood pressure and blood glucose readings, for doctors to decide whether a person can take COVID-19 vaccines, according to local media.
The move follows three deaths and some adverse reactions after injections that have triggered doubts over the city s priority policy to residents 60 years old and above, as the group faces chronic diseases.
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. Economies around the world have been hard-hit. Everyone hopes that the vaccines can be widely applied as soon as possible so that we can start to emerge from this predicament. Compared with the Mainland, Macau and Taiwan, epidemic control in Hong Kong has fallen short of expectations. However, from an international perspective, we have managed to keep the epidemic in check. As of midnight on January 26, the number of confirmed cases in Hong Kong was 10,223, which is less than some 130 other