Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Algernon Yau will join a delegation this afternoon to visit Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Dongguan, the Government announced. Organised by the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the aim of the trip is to help delegates keep abreast of the latest development of the Greater Bay Area for better integration into the nation’s overall development. Mr Yau will return to Hong Kong on March 23. During his absence, Under Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Bernard Chan will be Acting Secretary. http://dlvr.it/Sl99gg
About 7,887,500 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to the public, with about 4,260,300 people receiving their first dose and around 3,627,300 getting their second dose.
Among those given the first dose of vaccines, about 1,550,000 people have received the Sinovac jab and about 2,710,300 people got the BioNTech one.
For the second dose, about 1,345,000 people have received the Sinovac vaccine, while about 2,282,300 people have been administered the BioNTech jab.
About 45,200 people received jabs under the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme today.
Around 5,100 people received their first dose of the Sinovac vaccine and around 9,800 people received their second dose.
For the BioNTech vaccine, about 10,400 people received their first dose and around 20,000 people got their second dose.
The overall percentage of people who received the Sinovac vaccine at community vaccination centres is about 97%, while it is about 96% for the BioNTech one.
As of 8pm, about 1,300 people booked their first and second doses of the Sinovac vaccine online, while about 6,500 reserved their first and second doses of the BioNTech jab.
As of midnight, four people were sent to hospitals.
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