The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 103 days since February 26, 2021.
 
     So far, about 2 716 000 doses of vaccines have been administered under the Vaccination Programme. Details are as follows:
 

	Number of persons receiving Sinovac vaccine	Number of persons receiving BioNTech vaccine	Total number of doses
First vaccine dose	691 900	892 000	1 583 900
Second vaccine dose	476 400	655 800	1 132 200

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (June 8), about 36 400 persons have received vaccination and about 34 600 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
 

	Sinovac vaccine	BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose	13 900	12 400
Number of persons receiving second dose	4 200	5 800
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs)	96%	97%
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses	11 900	22 700

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 0.00am today, there were nine cases of ambulance transfer to hospital from CVCs or designated general out-patient clinics of the Hospital Authority. They were sent to hospital after experiencing common side effects after vaccination and were in stable condition. Six of them were discharged, one person was admitted for observation and two persons were discharged against medical advice.

Ends/Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Issued at HKT 21:38

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