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Get flu jab, expert tells public

20 April 2023

 

Top HK officials had flu jabs last year to encourage the public to do the same

A government health adviser has urged the public to get vaccinated against the flu, in the wake of a surge in severe cases of influenza in the past week.

According to Lau Yun-lung, chairman of the Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases, there were 25 severe cases of influenza reported in the second week of April alone, and more than 80 percent of the patients were not vaccinated.

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Lau said in an interview on a radio program on Thursday that it has been three years since Hong Kong had a surge in flu cases, which means residents’ immunity to the seasonal disease is low.

He said elderly people should consider taking the recombinant influenza vaccine instead of the inactivated type as the former has been shown to give better protection to people in this age group.

He added the government has sufficient stock of the recombinant vaccine to inoculate up to 90,000 people.

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He also said secondary school students have been put in the priority group list for receiving the vaccine to avoid having both Covid and flu outbreaks at schools, which could potentially paralyze the city’s health system.

On Wednesday, Hong Kong’s panel of experts issued recommendations for seasonal influenza vaccination for the 2023-2024 flu season with secondary school students remaining in the priority groups for the second year.

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The others in the group are health care workers, persons aged 50 years or above, pregnant women, residents of residential care homes, persons with chronic medical problems, children and adolescents aged 6 months to under 18 years, poultry workers, as well as pig farmers and pig-slaughtering industry personnel.

Those in these categories can get the vaccine for free at any health clinics while subsidized flu shots are made available at certain designated private clinics for those not in the priority list.

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The panel noted that the number of flu cases had risen past the baseline threshold in early April, signaling the start of the influenza season in the city.

They recommended that everyone, except those with contraindications, should receive the vaccine annually for personal protection.

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They also said Covid-19 vaccines can be given at the same time as the flu jab to anyone who gives consent.

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