COVID-19 Vaccination Programme statistics
*****************************************

     The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 220 days since February 26, 2021.
 
     So far, about 8 727 700 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 1 634 400 2 872 600 4 507 000
Second vaccine dose 1 528 700 2 692 100 4 220 700
* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (October 3), about 12 700 persons have received vaccination. Details are as follows:
 
  Sinovac vaccine BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose 1 000 2 400
Number of persons receiving second dose 2 100 7 200
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs) 96% 87%
* 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. Two of them were discharged, two persons were admitted for observation and two persons were discharged against medical advice.

Ends/Sunday, October 3, 2021
Issued at HKT 21:48

NNNN