COVID-19 Vaccination Programme statistics
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     The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 135 days since February 26, 2021.
 
     So far, about 4 341 500 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 1 071 600 1 493 600 2 565 200
Second vaccine dose 732 900 1 043 500 1 776 300
* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (July 10), about 64 000 persons have received vaccination and about 29 500 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
 
  Sinovac vaccine BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose 7 200 16 100
Number of persons receiving second dose 15 300 25 400
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs) 98% 99%
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses 4 600 24 900
* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 0.00am today, there were seven cases of ambulance transfer to hospital from CVCs. They were sent to hospital after experiencing common side effects after vaccination and were in stable condition. Four of them were discharged, one person was admitted for observation and two persons were discharged against medical advice.

Ends/Saturday, July 10, 2021
Issued at HKT 21:28

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