Covid: Hong Kong could end up throwing away unused jabsInternational 2021-05-26, by Editor Comments Off 2
Hong Kong has warned it could have to throw away vast stores of coronavirus vaccines because of people’s reluctance to have a jab.
The territory currently has around two million Pfizer shots that will be out of date in three months.
Less than 20% of people have had a jab, even though Hong Kong has more than enough doses for the whole population.
The low take-up rate has been blamed on a relatively low number of infections and distrust of the government.
An official from the government’s vaccine task force warned that Hong Kongers “only have a three-month window” before the first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines goes out of date.
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Tuesday, 25 May 2021 12:10 PM MYT
People wait to receive a dose of the Sinovac Biotech coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine at a community vaccination centre in Hong Kong, China, February 26, 2021. Reuters pic
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HONG KONG, May 25 ― Hong Kong may soon have to throw away millions of Coronavirus vaccine doses because they are approaching their expiry date and not enough people have signed up for the jabs, an official warned today.
Hong Kong is one of the few places in the world fortunate enough to have secured more than enough doses to innoculate its entire population of 7.5 million people.