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Vaccination container to launch on Jan 7
A purple container will be turned into a mobile vaccination center starting from January 7, and it will provide 450 shots of BioNTech vaccines per day.
The six-meter long container can house three vaccination counters and will be transported to different locations every few days, according to Town Health which will be running the new center.
Chief operating officer Ares Leung Kwok-ling told Sing Tao Daily, the Standard's sister publication, that the government has suggested five or six locations for the container to go to. Details will be announced soon.
Citizens can get jabs inside the air-conditioned container without making prior booking. One to two doctors will be stationed there, as well as four nurses.
The container will be put on ground level, which makes access easier for elderly and those on wheelchairs.
Its primary target will be elderly who have yet to receive their first Covid-19 jab. But it will welcome those who want to get booster jabs too, Leung said.
Meanwhile, Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen said vaccination centers will operate one hour longer on New Year's Day on Saturday for people to get their third jab.
From that day, nine of 10 community vaccination centers will extend their workings hours to 8am to 8pm every day, and they can administer 35,000 shots daily.
Authorities have announced all citizens can from Saturday book their booster jab as long as they have taken their second shot for more than six months.
Nip said authorities have procured 8.5 million doses of the German-made BioNTech jabs, and have used 6.1 million for now.
Almost 4.86 million, or 72.1 percent, of Hong Kong citizens have taken at least one Covid-19 jab. This includes 4.64 million, or 68.9 percent, who have two jabs. But Nip said the inoculation rate in elderly people above 80 is only 20 percent and called for them to receive the shots as soon as possible.
When asked about the requirement for government employees to show their vaccination record before entering offices from mid-February, Nip said 96 percent of them have taken at least one shot, and 1 percent were proved by doctors to be unfit for the jabs. He said the tightened policy targets to encourage the remaining 3 percent to get jabbed.
Chief operating officer Ares Leung Kwok-ling told Sing Tao Daily, the Standard's sister publication, that the government has suggested five or six locations for the container to go to. Details will be announced soon.
Citizens can get jabs inside the air-conditioned container without making prior booking. One to two doctors will be stationed there, as well as four nurses.
The container will be put on ground level, which makes access easier for elderly and those on wheelchairs.
Its primary target will be elderly who have yet to receive their first Covid-19 jab. But it will welcome those who want to get booster jabs too, Leung said.
Meanwhile, Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen said vaccination centers will operate one hour longer on New Year's Day on Saturday for people to get their third jab.
From that day, nine of 10 community vaccination centers will extend their workings hours to 8am to 8pm every day, and they can administer 35,000 shots daily.
Authorities have announced all citizens can from Saturday book their booster jab as long as they have taken their second shot for more than six months.
Nip said authorities have procured 8.5 million doses of the German-made BioNTech jabs, and have used 6.1 million for now.
Almost 4.86 million, or 72.1 percent, of Hong Kong citizens have taken at least one Covid-19 jab. This includes 4.64 million, or 68.9 percent, who have two jabs. But Nip said the inoculation rate in elderly people above 80 is only 20 percent and called for them to receive the shots as soon as possible.
When asked about the requirement for government employees to show their vaccination record before entering offices from mid-February, Nip said 96 percent of them have taken at least one shot, and 1 percent were proved by doctors to be unfit for the jabs. He said the tightened policy targets to encourage the remaining 3 percent to get jabbed.
