(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) A senior Hong Kong official said: Hong Kong will work towards "universal vaccination" in the future

  China News Service, Hong Kong, August 29 (Reporter Zeng Ping) The SAR Government Civil Service Secretary Nie Dequan, who is responsible for coordinating Hong Kong's new crown vaccination plan, said on the 29th that 60% of the eligible population in Hong Kong has received the first dose of the new crown vaccine. Future goals It is "should fight as much as possible" and work towards the direction of "universal vaccination".

  Statistics show that as of August 28, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government has vaccinated the citizens with about 7.41 million doses of the new crown vaccine, and about 4.08 million people have received the first dose of vaccine.

  Nie Dequan said in a TV show that day that it took Hong Kong half a year to increase the population who had received the first dose of vaccine to 60%.

Among them, the vaccination rate for the working population aged 20 to 59 is about 70%, the vaccination rate for students aged 12 to 19 is about 56%, and the vaccination rate for elderly people over 70 is less than 30%.

  Nie Dequan pointed out that the interim goal of the SAR government is to increase the first-dose vaccination rate to 70% by the end of September, after which the goal is to "fight as needed."

Some experts call this "universal vaccination" and the SAR government will work hard in this direction.

  "Recently, there has been a downward trend in vaccination and appointment vaccination, so we hope that everyone will continue to work hard and must increase our vaccination rate." Nie Dequan said when meeting with the media after attending the program, the current global epidemic is very severe, and the emergence of variant viruses is There is a great risk of an outbreak, so it is a must for the whole society to get vaccinated as much as possible.

  Nie Dequan believes that the elderly are the group with the highest risk of infection, but their vaccination rate is low.

In the future, the SAR government will try its best to use methods that are convenient for the elderly, including organizing health seminars in shopping malls, housing estates or districts and arranging vaccination on the spot, etc., to continue to increase the immunization rate of the elderly.

  Nie Dequan mentioned that the current first shot vaccination rate of civil servants has exceeded 90%.

He called on employers to adopt the same method as the SAR government, that is, if they do not receive the vaccine, they must be tested for the new coronavirus regularly in order to increase the vaccination rate of their employees.

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