Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor (right) tours the Caroline Hill Road pop-up community vaccination center, Hong Kong, March 27, 2022. (PHOTO/ HKSAR GOVERNMENT)
HONG KONG – Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Tuesday called on unvaccinated Hong Kong residents, especially children and the elderly, to get jabs against COVID-19.
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From the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong, it is clearly shown that vaccination is highly efficacious in preventing or reducing hospitalization and the chance of developing severe complications after infection.
Carrie Lam, HK chief executive
"From the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong, it is clearly shown that vaccination is highly efficacious in preventing or reducing hospitalization and the chance of developing severe complications after infection," she said during a visit to the Caroline Hill Road pop-up community vaccination center that provides people aged 12 or above with the BioNTech vaccination service.
Those who have received vaccination should receive the second and third doses in a timely manner to protect themselves and others and build a stronger protective shield for Hong Kong, she said.
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The Hong Kong government will continue to pursue a multi-pronged approach in striving to boost the vaccination rates of four key groups to 90 percent by the end of April, namely the second-dose vaccination rate of people aged 12 or above as well as the first-dose vaccination rates of children aged 3 to 11, elderly people in residential care homes and elderly people aged 70 or above, Lam said.
Hong Kong registered 7,596 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the tally in the fifth wave to 1.13 million.
With Xinhua inputs