BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for toddlers to reach in Hong Kong on Friday and might be out there subsequent week, authorities say

Lee stated the complete course of the vaccination for toddlers would contain three doses, including that the second shot ought to be taken at the least 56 days after the primary one and the third ought to be 90 days after that.

Professor Lau Yu-lung, chairman of the Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Illnesses, referred to as the supply of the BioNTech vaccine for younger youngsters “excellent news”, as a result of a further choice would encourage extra mother and father to take their toddlers for a jab and drive up the inoculation fee amongst this age group.

“Having decisions is essential in attempting to push up vaccination uptake, so the addition of the BioNTech vaccine for youngsters aged six months to 5 years may be very welcome,” he stated, interesting to folks to get their children jabbed as quickly as attainable.

However Lau additionally stated he was conscious of some mother and father’ considerations over the vaccines, and didn’t count on the inoculation fee amongst toddlers underneath three years previous to surge to between 50 and 60 per cent by the top of the yr from beneath 20 per cent presently.

He stated he hoped the arrival of the BioNTech vaccine would immediate extra mother and father to get their toddlers jabbed so at the least 40 per cent of that age group had been protected by the top of the yr.

The paediatric model of the vaccine designed for youngsters aged 5 to 11 was imported into Hong Kong and made out there from Wednesday on the 4 youngsters neighborhood vaccination centres.

The federal government authorized the emergency use of the toddler model of the German-made vaccine for youngsters aged six months to 5 years previous in mid-October.

Presently, solely the Chinese language-made Sinovac vaccine is on the market to youngsters as younger as six months.

As of Thursday, round 18.6 per cent of kids aged zero to 2 and 66.eight per cent of these aged between three to 11 have obtained the primary dose of the Sinovac vaccine respectively.

Responding to a query about when the town would drop all journey restrictions, Undersecretary for Well being Lee stated as a result of the most recent spherical of social-distancing rest had been carried out on Thursday, the federal government needed to observe its influence on the pandemic state of affairs for per week.

“If the state of affairs is constructive, the place the variety of critical and important instances continues to drop, there might be ample room for rest,” she stated.

“We additionally hope that the general public will do their finest to vaccinate themselves throughout this era, permitting extra room for Hong Kong to return to normalcy.”

Hong Kong on Thursday logged 5,245 Covid-19 infections, 416 of which had been imported, and 10 extra deaths, bringing the entire tally to 1,933,080 instances and 10,428 fatalities.

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