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
Hong Kong prepares to vaccinate 36,000 people daily with Pfizer-BioNTech Jab
Sinovac, Astra shots will be sent to other hospitals, clinics. Government may not inoculate elderly all at the same time.
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Hong Kong will set up 18 community vaccination centers one in every district to each handle at least 2,000 residents a day as the city prepares to administer the Covid-19 shot developed by
Pfizer Inc. as early as the end of February. These centers will only handle the BioNTech vaccine, while the other two shots the city has ordered from Sinovac Biotech Ltd. and AstraZeneca Plc will be distributed to private hospitals and clinics, according to Thomas Tsang, a member of Hong Kong’s vaccination program task force.
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(Bloomberg) Hong Kong will set up 18 community vaccination centers one in every district to each handle at least 2,000 residents a day as the city prepares to administer the Covid-19 shot developed by BioNTech SE and Pfizer Inc. as early as the end of February.
(Bloomberg) Hong Kong will set up 18 community vaccination centers one in every district to each handle at least 2,000 residents a day as the city prepares to administer the Covid-19 shot developed by BioNTech SE and Pfizer Inc. as early as the end of February.
Hong Kong’s leader has vowed that future Covid-19 lockdowns will retain the element of surprise and operate on a smaller scale than the one in Yau Tsim Mong district, which she hailed as a success despite news of the screening exercise leaking, allowing some residents to flee beforehand. She praised the 44-hour mandatory-testing exercise in Jordan which ended early on.
HK learns from first lockdown By CHEN ZIMO in Hong Kong | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-01-25 08:58 Share CLOSE Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam Cheng Yuest-ngor meets the press ahead of an Executive Council meeting at Central Government Offices on Jan 12, 2021. [Photo by PARKER ZHENG/CHINA DAILY]
Hong Kong had its first two-day regional lockdown on Saturday, involving more than 8,000 residents in Jordan, a central urban area and one of the most densely populated areas in the city. Officials and experts said on Sunday that the lockdown would lend valuable experience in coping with a possible severe regional outbreak in future.