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 2,679,600 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to the public, with about 1,557,500 people receiving their first dose and about 1,122,100 getting their second dose.
Among those given the first dose of vaccines, about 677,900 people have received the Sinovac jab and about 879,500 people have received the BioNTech one.
For the second dose, about 472,200 people have received the Sinovac vaccine, while about 649,900 people have been administered the BioNTech jab.
About 14,100 people received their first dose of the Sinovac vaccine and around 5,000 people received their second dose under the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme today.
For the BioNTech vaccine, about 15,200 people received their first dose and about 7,700 people received their second dose.
The overall percentage of people who received the Sinovac vaccine at community vaccination centres is about 96%, while for the BioNTech one it is 97%.
As of 8pm, about 12,500 people booked their first and second doses of the Sinovac vaccine online, while about 23,400 reserved their first and second doses of the BioNTech jab.
As of midnight, nine people were sent to hospitals.
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