The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 208 days since February 26, 2021.
So far, about 8 423 300 doses of vaccines have been administered under the Vaccination Programme. Details are as follows:
Number of persons receiving Sinovac vaccine | Number of persons receiving BioNTech vaccine | Total number of doses | |
First vaccine dose | 1 602 600 | 2 815 400 | 4 418 000 |
Second vaccine dose | 1 460 600 | 2 544 600 | 4 005 300 |
* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (September 21), about 18 200 persons have received vaccination and about 3 300 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
Sinovac vaccine | BioNTech vaccine | |
Number of persons receiving first dose | 2 300 | 3 100 |
Number of persons receiving second dose | 5 000 | 7 800 |
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs) | 91% | 87% |
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses | 600 | 2 700 |
* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
In the 24 hours ending at 0.00am today, there were two cases of ambulance transfer to hospital from a CVC and a designated general out-patient clinic of the Hospital Authority respectively. They were sent to hospital after experiencing common side effects after vaccination and were in stable condition. Both of them were discharged.
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