The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 172 days since February 26, 2021.
 
     So far, about 6 699 900 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	1 422 500	2 341 100	3 763 700
Second vaccine dose	1 139 000	1 797 300	2 936 300

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (August 16), about 64 800 persons have received vaccination and about 15 400 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
 

	Sinovac vaccine	BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose	9 000	26 300
Number of persons receiving second dose	10 200	19 300
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs)	97%	97%
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses	3 000	12 300

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 0.00am today, there were 11 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. Eight of them were discharged, two persons were admitted for observation and one person was discharged against medical advice.

Ends/Monday, August 16, 2021
Issued at HKT 22:01

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