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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,
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6.44m people receive vaccine jabs

About 6,447,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to the public, with about 3,634,800 people receiving their first dose and around 2,812,300 getting their second dose.   Among those given the first dose of vaccines, about 1,390,600 people have received the Sinovac jab and about 2,244,200 people have received the BioNTech one.   For the second dose, about 1,102,300 people have received the Sinovac vaccine, while about 1,709,900 people have been administered the BioNTech jab.   About 65,900 people received jabs under the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme today.   About 9,900 people received their first dose of the Sinovac vaccine and around 9,700 people received their second dose.   For the BioNTech vaccine, about 23,200 people received their first dose and around 23,100 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 98% for the BioNTech one.   As of 8pm, about 3,400 people booked their first and second doses of the Sinovac vaccine online, while about 14,200 reserved their first and second doses of the BioNTech jab.   As of midnight, 22 people were sent to hospitals.
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