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2021-07-09 06:50
Last update date: 2021-07-09 06:50
In order to facilitate citizens to receive the new crown vaccine and increase the vaccination rate, the government has launched a vaccine outreach vaccination program for different groups of society in stages.
On April 13, the first batch of "Outreach Vaccination Arrangements for Residential Homes" was launched, but as of early July, the vaccination rate for residents in residential care homes for the elderly and the disabled was 5%, and the vaccination rate for employees was 49%.
Among them, the Social Welfare Department revealed that as of June 28, only 1,141 residents and 177 employees had received at least one injection through outreach arrangements.
However, the corporate and school outreach programs launched in May and June were more successful.
Not only are different types of organizations actively participating, such as theme parks, schools, public transportation companies, power companies, real estate companies, foreign companies, etc., the number of participants in each organization is even higher than that of residential buildings.
Among them, about 1,100 people participated in the outreach vaccination activities of China Light and Power Company alone, which almost caught up with the number of residents participating in the outreach program of the entire institution.
The homes were the first to open up vaccination and were the first group to provide vaccination outreach services. Why did the vaccination rate lag far behind?
The 200 neighbourhoods and the elderly in Sha Tau Kok were vaccinated with Koxing vaccine through the government outreach service.
(Information Services Department)
In addition to saying that the health conditions of some residents may not be suitable for vaccination, and the public's confidence in the vaccine has not been established when the vaccine was first launched, this has nothing to do with the communication and publicity of government departments.
Under "Outreach Vaccination Arrangements for Residential Homes", all residential homes in Hong Kong responded to the SWD before March 22, stating their residents' wishes for vaccination. Afterwards, the SWD began to arrange outreach vaccination for those in need on April 13 activity.
This has made many institutions mistakenly believe that there is no mechanism to sign up for outreach injections again after this.
At the same time, the Chairman of the Elderly Services Association, Chen Zhiyu, also said that the progress of outreach vaccination in homes was slow. Among the homes that raised their hands to the SWD at the end of March, some homes were not equipped with assessment services until mid June.
Flexible communication makes outreach vaccination more successful
On the contrary, it was the Civil Service Bureau that started to provide outreach vaccination services to other public organizations in May and June, and its publicity and arrangements were clearer and faster.
In the press bulletin and social platform of the Civil Service Bureau, he has repeatedly publicized and reported on outbound vaccination activities, and left contact numbers, appealing to companies and organizations if they have enough employees to be vaccinated, and enough suitable places and space. Vaccination outreach services can be used to vaccinate their employees in a more convenient way.
In this way, an atmosphere of active participation of many organizations and organizations is created, which further encourages groups that are still waiting and sees. At the same time, it also allows all sectors of society to know from multiple channels that they can proactively raise their hands and apply for more convenient vaccination services.
For example, it is not convenient for residents of Sha Tau Kok Market to go out, but after they have gathered enough people, they voluntarily apply and become the first regional organization to use outreach vaccination services.
Director of the Civil Service Bureau Nie Dequan (second from right) and China Land Group Chief Executive Chen Kaiyun (first from right) today inspected the situation of Chinese Land Group employees and tenants vaccinated through government outreach services.
Pictured is an employee (left one) being vaccinated against the new crown.
(Photo by the Information Services Department)
On the other hand, the outreach activities arranged by the Civil Service Bureau are more flexible.
For example, Fanling Government Primary School wanted to arrange a more convenient group vaccination interaction after the minimum age for vaccination of Fubitai dropped to 12 years old.
However, as the number of injections was not enough to apply for outreach to the school, the Civil Service Bureau arranged a special car to pick up teachers and students from the school to the community vaccination center of Longchen Road Gymnasium, Sheung Shui, to facilitate their vaccination.
It can be seen that whether it is in terms of publicity and communication channels, frequency and form, or arrangement and coordination, the Civil Service Bureau will be more clear, proactive and flexible in the later stage, so that all sectors of the society can more clearly know how to enjoy vaccine outreach vaccination services more conveniently. .
Vaccines are an important channel for restarting economic and people’s livelihood exchanges, and citizens’ willingness to vaccinate has been increasing recently.
Since July, the number of daily vaccinations has almost been more than 50,000, which is twice the number of daily vaccinations at the end of April.
Among them, it exceeded 60,000 on July 2 and 5, and nearly 70,000 were vaccinated.
However, the population vaccination rate in residential homes is far behind. This will not only become a breach in the community’s epidemic prevention, but also due to the lower population immunity of residential homes, the consequences will be more serious once an outbreak occurs.
The hospital group is different from other groups in terms of physical health and the level of receiving information. The Social Welfare Department should think about how to more actively and proactively convey the information of convenient vaccination to the hospital group and implement it quickly.
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