The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 208 days since February 26, 2021.
 
     So far, about 8 423 300 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	1 602 600	2 815 400	4 418 000
Second vaccine dose	1 460 600	2 544 600	4 005 300

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (September 21), about 18 200 persons have received vaccination and about 3 300 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
 

	Sinovac vaccine	BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose	2 300	3 100
Number of persons receiving second dose	5 000	7 800
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs)	91%	87%
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses	600	2 700

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 0.00am today, there were two cases of ambulance transfer to hospital from a CVC and a designated general out-patient clinic of the Hospital Authority respectively. They were sent to hospital after experiencing common side effects after vaccination and were in stable condition. Both of them were discharged.

Ends/Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Issued at HKT 21:57

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