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,
About 1,529,500 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to the public, with about 971,900 people receiving their first dose and about 557,600 getting their second dose.
Among those given the first dose of vaccines, about 445,800 people have received the Sinovac jab and about 526,100 people have received the BioNTech one.
For the second dose, about 322,600 people have received the Sinovac vaccine, while about 235,000 people have been administered the BioNTech jab.
About 7,000 people received their first dose of the Sinovac vaccine under the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme today.
Among them, about 3,200 people received the jab at community vaccination centres (CVCs), while about 3,800 people were inoculated at private doctors and clinics participating in the programme.
Around 2,500 people received their second dose of the Sinovac vaccine today, including about 2,000 people vaccinated at CVCs and about 600 people through private doctors and clinics.
For the BioNTech vaccine, about 12,700 people received their first dose at CVCs and about 15,300 people received their second dose.
The overall percentage of people who received the Sinovac vaccine at CVCs is 94%, while it is 97% for the BioNTech one.
As of 8pm, about 4,300 people had booked their first and second doses of the Sinovac vaccine online, while about 17,300 had reserved their first and second doses of the BioNTech jab.
As of midnight, six people were sent to hospitals.
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