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Health chief meets GD delegation

Secretary for Health Prof Lo Chung-mau met a delegation led by Guangdong Provincial Medical Products Administration (GDMPA) General Director Jiang Xiaodong today, with both sides agreeing to further deepen collaboration in relevant areas.    Prof Lo said the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government expressed its sincere gratitude to the GDMPA for its staunch support for Hong Kong in the past, including the implementation of the initiatives of, among others, the measure of using Hong Kong registered drugs and medical devices used in Hong Kong public hospitals in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and streamlining of the approval procedures for Hong Kong registered traditional proprietary Chinese medicines (pCms) for external use to be registered and sold in the Mainland.   The Government and the GDMPA agreed at the meeting to further deepen collaboration on the regulation of Chinese medicines (CM), the formulation of Greater Bay Area Chinese medicine standards,

5.71m vaccine doses administered

About 5,719,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to the public, with about 3,256,100 people receiving their first dose and around 2,462,900 getting their second dose.   Among those given the first dose of vaccines, about 1,275,900 people have received the Sinovac jab and about 1,980,100 people have received the BioNTech one.   For the second dose, about 990,700 people have received the Sinovac vaccine, while about 1,472,300 people have been administered the BioNTech jab.   About 55,800 people received jabs under the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme today.   About 6,200 people received their first dose of the Sinovac vaccine and around 7,300 people received their second dose.   For the BioNTech vaccine, about 22,400 people received their first dose and around 19,700 people got their second dose.   The overall percentage of people who received the Sinovac vaccine at community vaccination centres is about 96%, while it is about 98% for the BioNTech one.   As of 8pm, about 4,200 people booked their first and second doses of the Sinovac vaccine online, while about 23,100 reserved their first and second doses of the BioNTech jab.   As of midnight, nine people were sent to hospitals.
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