The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 205 days since February 26, 2021.
 
     So far, about 8 356 500 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	1 595 900	2 802 900	4 398 800
Second vaccine dose	1 444 800	2 512 900	3 957 700

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (September 18), about 40 400 persons have received vaccination and about 3 800 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
 

	Sinovac vaccine	BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose	2 700	8 800
Number of persons receiving second dose	7 300	21 700
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs)	94%	89%
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses	700	3 200

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 0.00am today, there were six 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 one person was discharged against medical advice.

Ends/Saturday, September 18, 2021
Issued at HKT 21:09

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