​The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 151 days since February 26, 2021.
 
     So far, about 5 336 700 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	1 217 900	1 847 300	3 065 200
Second vaccine dose	925 700	1 345 800	2 271 500

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (July 26), about 66 600 persons have received vaccination and about 26 400 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
 

	Sinovac vaccine	BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose	11 200	21 700
Number of persons receiving second dose	11 800	21 900
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs)	98%	98%
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses	4 400	22 000

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 0.00am today, there were 10 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. Six of them were discharged, three persons were admitted for observation and one person was discharged against medical advice.

Ends/Monday, July 26, 2021
Issued at HKT 21:46

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