[Commentary] On March 22, Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and a group of senior officials of the Special Administrative Region Government received the second dose of Kexing vaccine in the conference hall on the second floor of the Government Headquarters.
Carrie Lam said at the press conference that although the recent epidemic in Hong Kong has dropped to a single digit, it should not be taken lightly and urged everyone to take the vaccine together.
[Concurrent] Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Recently, you have seen the gradual decline of the new crown epidemic in Hong Kong, local (confirmed) cases have dropped to single figures, and cases of unknown origin have also declined, but at this time we cannot relax or take it lightly. I hereby appeal to all Hong Kong citizens to get the first vaccination earlier. Citizens who have received the second dose of the vaccine should also be vaccinated according to their earlier appointment for the second dose of vaccine.
Because as I said just now, the second dose of vaccine can be protected. Otherwise, as one of our experts said, if you get the first shot but not the second shot, you will lose all your previous efforts.
So make this appeal again.
[Commentary] Carrie Lam also said that in order to protect the citizens' demand for vaccination, relevant experts from the SAR government are studying the procurement of the fourth new crown vaccine.
[Concurrent] Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Colleagues and experts from the Department of Health are also working hard to find out where the fourth vaccine that we still have funds to purchase should come from.
Everyone remembers that we applied for funding in the Legislative Council. We bought four vaccines, each with 7.5 million doses of vaccine, so that about 7.5 million Hong Kong citizens have twice as many vaccine applications.
Why buy 30 million doses of the vaccine? The first is to "stabilize the formation", and the second is that I don’t know how long the protection time of the vaccine is. After the two doses, it is not necessary to use it, or for a short time. After losing immunity, he will fight again.
Therefore, the SAR government has adopted this method in order to protect the health of all Hong Kong citizens.
Reporter Liang Yuan from Hong Kong
Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】