COVID-19 Vaccination Programme statistics
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     The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 193 days since February 26, 2021.
 
     So far, about 7 887 500 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 1 550 000 2 710 300 4 260 300
Second vaccine dose 1 345 000 2 282 300 3 627 300
* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (September 6), about 45 200 persons have received vaccination and about 7 900 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
 
  Sinovac vaccine BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose 5 100 10 400
Number of persons receiving second dose 9 800 20 000
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs) 97% 96%
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses 1 300 6 500
* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 0.00am today, there were four 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 four persons were discharged. 

Ends/Monday, September 6, 2021
Issued at HKT 21:27

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