China News Service, May 18. According to Hong Kong Wenhui.com, the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong has eased, and the "Vaccine Pass" is currently in the second stage. Citizens aged 18 or over need to be vaccinated twice before they can enter the restaurants and other listed premises. .
On the 17th, 29,530 more people in Hong Kong were vaccinated, of which 2,536 were vaccinated for the first shot, 4,907 for the second, 19,774 for the third, and 2,313 for the fourth.
Data map: Hong Kong citizens are vaccinated against the new crown.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Li Zhihua
As of 8 p.m. on the 17th, the SAR government has vaccinated citizens with a total of about 16.513 million doses of the new crown vaccine, of which more than 6.674 million people have received the first dose of the vaccine, accounting for 91.7% of the eligible population; more than 6.262 million people have received the second dose of the vaccine vaccines, accounting for 86% of the eligible population; more than 3.488 million citizens have received the third dose of the vaccine, accounting for 51.5% of the eligible population; 88,600 citizens have received the fourth dose of the vaccine.
The SAR Government reminds that since the population base has been updated to the provisional figure for the population at the end of 2021 published by the Census and Statistics Department, the percentage of the vaccinated population may differ from the earlier statistics.