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,
Around 162,100 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19, with about 140,700 receiving their first dose of the Sinovac vaccine and about 21,400 their first dose of the Comirnaty jab, the Government announced.
About 16,200 people received their first vaccine dose under the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme today. Among them, around 9,500 received the Sinovac vaccine and about 6,700 the Comirnaty one.
The overall percentage of people who have received the Sinovac vaccine at eight community vaccination centres is about 72%, while around 90% have received the Comirnaty jab at seven centres.
As of midnight, eight people were sent to hospital for treatment.
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