COVID-19 Vaccination Programme statistics
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     The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 179 days since February 26, 2021.
 
     So far, about 7 113 800 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 1 471 500 2 484 400 3 955 900
Second vaccine dose 1 202 600 1 955 300 3 157 900
* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (August 23), about 59 700 persons have received vaccination and about 11 200 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
 
  Sinovac vaccine BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose 7 500 19 500
Number of persons receiving second dose 10 800 22 000
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs) 97% 97%
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses 2 200 8 900
* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 0.00am today, there were eight 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 three persons were discharged against medical advice.

Ends/Monday, August 23, 2021
Issued at HKT 21:53

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