By The SUN
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| Elderly people are now the only ones allowed to walk in for a vaccine jab |
Only people 60 years old above will be allowed to walk in
for Covid-19 vaccines starting tomorrow, Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip
said today, Jan. 10.
Nip, who runs the vaccination campaign of the government,
told a radio program that he was glad to see more people getting jabbed, but
the government has to make the change to make things easier for the elderly,
according to RTHK.
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"Due to the recent situation, we want to make it
convenient for elderly people, because some of them don't know how to make a
booking [online] and they need to walk in," he added.
All others who are eligible to get a Covid-19 vaccine will
now be required to book their places in Community Vaccination Centers (CVCs) through the vaccination website: https://www.covidvaccine.gov.hk/en/.
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Anyone who wanted to get a vaccine was earlier allowed to
line up for same-day tickets in a bid to boost the city’s vaccination rate.
Nip said more vaccination centers will be put up and more
staff will be hired to enable them to handle the increase in people seeking the
jabs.
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He said the government was returning to the old booking
system because of the long lines that have built up at the vaccination centers
in the wake of a rise in local cases of the Omicron variant, and a new policy
requiring people to have had at least one vaccine shot to be able to enter
restaurants starting Feb. 24.
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At least 5.03 million of these vaccinations were first dose,
which represents 74.7% of
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