COVID-19 Vaccination Programme statistics
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     The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 144 days since February 26, 2021.
 
     So far, about 4 891 800 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 1 154 100 1 699 300 2 853 400
Second vaccine dose 841 300 1 197 000 2 038 400
* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (July 19), about 65 000 persons have received vaccination and about 42 200 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
 
  Sinovac vaccine BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose 10 500 25 800
Number of persons receiving second dose 13 100 15 600
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs) 96% 98%
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses 5 100 37 100
* 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. All of them were discharged.

Ends/Monday, July 19, 2021
Issued at HKT 22:00

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