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Health chief meets GD delegation

Secretary for Health Prof Lo Chung-mau met a delegation led by Guangdong Provincial Medical Products Administration (GDMPA) General Director Jiang Xiaodong today, with both sides agreeing to further deepen collaboration in relevant areas.    Prof Lo said the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government expressed its sincere gratitude to the GDMPA for its staunch support for Hong Kong in the past, including the implementation of the initiatives of, among others, the measure of using Hong Kong registered drugs and medical devices used in Hong Kong public hospitals in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and streamlining of the approval procedures for Hong Kong registered traditional proprietary Chinese medicines (pCms) for external use to be registered and sold in the Mainland.   The Government and the GDMPA agreed at the meeting to further deepen collaboration on the regulation of Chinese medicines (CM), the formulation of Greater Bay Area Chinese medicine standards,

Vaccine data followed up

The Department of Health has been actively following up with Sinovac Biotech (Hong Kong) with a view to obtaining as soon as possible the Phase 3 clinical data of its COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, the Government said today.   According to the latest reply from Sinovac, the company is preparing the relevant information and will submit it to the department as soon as possible.   According to the Prevention & Control of Disease (Use of Vaccines) Regulation, the Secretary for Food & Health may, under the state of public health emergency, authorise the use of COVID-19 vaccines which fulfil the criteria of safety, efficacy and quality for the purpose of vaccination programmes conducted by the Government.   The regulation also specifies the conditions and procedures which the vaccine manufacturer or its representative, importer, or wholesale dealer must follow when submitting an application for seeking authorisation for emergency use.   To complete the authorisation process in a timely and smooth manner, the department has been processing part of the information provided by Sinovac and has also requested the company to provide as soon as possible the Phase 3 clinical data it has submitted to the World Health Organization.   After receiving the necessary information and relevant clinical data, the Advisory Panel on COVID-19 Vaccines appointed by the Chief Executive will review them and make a recommendation in accordance with the regulation to ensure the relevant vaccine fulfils the criteria of safety, efficacy and quality.   The Government said it will ensure the authorised vaccines satisfy the aforesaid criteria before providing vaccination for members of the public, adding that it will adhere to the principles of openness and transparency so that the public can obtain the latest information on vaccines.
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