The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 198 days since February 26, 2021.

     So far, about 8 115 500 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	1 572 400	2 757 700	4 330 000
Second vaccine dose	1 392 900	2 392 600	3 785 500

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (September 11), about 53 500 persons have received vaccination and about 5 400 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
 

	Sinovac vaccine	BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose	3 800	12 600
Number of persons receiving second dose	9 500	27 600
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs)	97%	97%
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses	1 000	4 400

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 0.00am today, there were 14 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. Thirteen of them were discharged and one person was admitted for observation.

Ends/Saturday, September 11, 2021
Issued at HKT 21:12

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