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South China Morning Post
Health officials revealed on Sunday that a Hong Kong resident had received three doses of Covid-19 vaccine, and urged private doctors taking part in the city’s inoculation drive to check jab records before administering shots.
The 32-year-old man had his first dose, a BioNTech jab, at a community vaccination centre on March 12. He then went to a private clinic on March 28 and received the Sinovac vaccine, before returning to a vaccination centre on Sunday (April 11) for his second BioNTech shot.
His doctor reported the man on March 28 after checking the patient’s electronic vaccination record, but only after the Sinovac jab had been administered. The 32-year-old had not disclosed that he had already received his first BioNTech dose during his consultation with the doctor, according to a Department of Health statement issued on Sunday evening.
Hong Kong's biggest broadcaster TVB has received a flood of complaints against its new variety show for lampooning the city's leader and other prominent public figures, prompting one of the programme's stars to quit. Critics put off by the show said the troubled station should resist relying on "low comedy" in trying to win back lost viewers and advertisers. The.
South China Morning Post
Hundreds of people queued up on Monday at Tsim Sha Tsui’s Harbour City, Hong Kong’s largest shopping centre, to be compulsorily tested for Covid-19 after a patient carrying a mutated strain of the virus was believed to have visited the mall about a week ago.
Hong Kong health authorities issued the testing order for visitors to the 2 million sq ft mall after an infected person, said to be the 31-year-old woman confirmed as having the more virulent strain on Sunday, visited a dessert shop in the mall on Sunday (April 11).
According to the mall’s management, the infected person visited shop No 3001, known as Le Dessert, in the City’super market on the third floor of Gateway Arcade, part of the Harbour City complex, on the day in question.