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Coronavirus Hong Kong: vaccination bookings soar, with many centres fully booked for next 2 weeks
- According to government website, 14 of 24 vaccination centres offering BioNTech shots fully booked for at least 14 days from Monday
- While demand for Sinovac jabs is much lower, most clinics offering them are also booked solid
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Reservations for Covid-19 vaccinations in Hong Kong have soared, with more than half of inoculation centres offering BioNTech jabs fully booked for the next fortnight, as the city on Friday set a new daily record for administering the shots.
Demand for the Chinese-made Sinovac jabs has grown weaker in recent weeks following studies showing it generates “substantially lower” antibody levels compared with the German-produced BioNTech vaccine.
Even so, most public clinics administering the Sinovac shots – which have fewer openings than the community vaccination centres – were fully booked for the next two weeks as of Friday.
The promising figures – posted ahead of the expected closure of the centres in two months – follow a sluggish start to the inoculation drive, which has only picked up steam in recent weeks.
On Wednesday, the city hit the milestone of 5 million doses administered locally.
The 70,570 doses administered on Friday set a new daily record. The tally has averaged around 60,000 for the last two weeks, compared with around 50,000 the week before, and 40,000 a month ago.
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