The Immigration Department will launch new electronic services tomorrow for eligible applicants to complete the entire process of birth or death registrations online, without having to visit a registry in person. According to the Births & Deaths Registration (Amendment) Ordinance 2023, which will take effect tomorrow, the statutory time limit for the registration of deaths from natural causes is extended from 24 hours to 14 days. It also removes the requirement for applicants who need to register births or deaths to attend the registries in person, so as to provide a legal basis for the introduction of electronic services for these kinds of registration. Under the new electronic services, if either parent of a newborn baby is a Hong Kong permanent resident, the parents may submit an application for a birth registration online within 42 days after the birth of their legitimate child. They may apply for a birth certificate at the same time and choose to receive it by
About 2,224,100 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to the public, with about 1,289,800 people receiving their first dose and about 934,300 getting their second dose.
Among those given the first dose of vaccines, about 553,800 people have received the Sinovac jab and about 736,000 people have received the BioNTech one.
For the second dose, about 409,300 people have received the Sinovac vaccine, while about 525,000 people have been administered the BioNTech jab.
About 5,800 people received their first dose of the Sinovac vaccine and around 4,000 people received their second dose under the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme today.
For the BioNTech vaccine, about 5,300 people received their first dose at community vaccination centres (CVCs) and about 8,800 people received their second dose.
The overall percentage of people who received the Sinovac vaccine at CVCs is about 95%, while it is about 96% for the BioNTech one.
As of 8pm, about 6,700 people booked their first and second doses of the Sinovac vaccine online, while about 15,300 reserved their first and second doses of the BioNTech jab.
As of midnight, 14 people were sent to hospitals.
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