The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 219 days since February 26, 2021.
      
     So far, about 8 715 000 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	1 633 400	2 870 200	4 503 600
Second vaccine dose	1 526 500	2 684 800	4 211 400

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (October 2), about 22 600 persons have received vaccination. Details are as follows:
 

	Sinovac vaccine	BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose	2 100	3 500
Number of persons receiving second dose	5 900	11 200
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs)	95%	88%

* 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. Three of them were discharged and one person was admitted for observation.

Ends/Saturday, October 2, 2021
Issued at HKT 21:11

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