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Vaccine Pass|6.13 extended to 13 types of medical premises including specialist outpatient clinics, patients without injections must be tested

2022-05-21T08:03:50.571Z


After the "Vaccine Pass" will be "spicy" to the third level at the end of this month, the public will have to take three shots before entering restaurants and other premises. The Food and Health Bureau announced today (21st) that starting from the 13th of next month, the "Vaccine Pass" will be issued.


After the "Vaccine Pass" will be "spicy" to the third level at the end of this month, the public will have to take three shots before entering restaurants and other premises.


The Food and Health Bureau announced today (21st) that starting from the 13th of next month, the "Vaccine Pass" will be extended to 13 types of medical premises including the Hospital Authority's specialist outpatient clinics and district health centres. and provide relevant certificates for staff to check before entering the premises to use the service.

If a patient fails to meet the vaccination requirements, a negative nucleic acid test certificate 48 hours before the visit can be replaced.


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The Food and Health Bureau said in the afternoon that starting from June 13, the "Vaccine Pass" will be extended to 13 types of designated medical premises under the Food and Health Bureau, the Department of Health and the Hospital Authority. Service users and visitors must meet the vaccination requirements. However, if the service user has not yet received the injection, or has not received all the injections, a negative nucleic acid test result can be substituted. At that time, they must produce relevant certificates as required by the premises staff for inspection by the premises staff, but do not need to scan the QR code of the "Vaccine Pass".

Implementation of the "Vaccine Pass" arrangement in medical premises:


1. If service users meet the requirements of the "Vaccination Pass", they include those who have received the required dose of COVID-19 vaccine, are recovered persons on government records, or have been certified by a doctor as unsuitable for vaccination, and hold relevant vaccination records (including recovered persons records). ) or a medical exemption certificate to receive services at designated medical premises.

2. If service users fail to meet the requirements of the "Vaccine Pass", they can present a certificate of negative nucleic acid test results sampled within 48 hours before their visit to replace the "Vaccine Pass" to receive services at designated medical premises.

3. Visitors (including caregivers of service users) must meet the requirements of the "Vaccine Pass" before entering the designated medical premises. Pre-visit testing cannot be used as an alternative arrangement.

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Medical premises for which the "Vaccine Pass" is applicable include:


1. Hospital Authority Specialist Outpatient Clinic


2. Student Health Service Centre and Health Assessment Centre


3. Women's Health Centre


4. Oral Health Education Services Resource Centre


5. Tourism Health Centre


6. Red Ribbon Centre


7. Health Promotion Office Regional


Centre8 . Methadone Clinic


9. Civil Servant Clinic


10. Government Dental Clinic and Orthodontics Clinic


11. Civil Servant Integrated Health Centre


12. District Health Centre


13. District Health Station

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The Food and Health Bureau pointed out that in order to ensure that urgent or urgent medical services are not affected, the "Vaccine Pass" arrangement does not apply to medical premises that provide urgent or urgent services and diagnose and treat occasional diseases.

13 types of medical premises not subject to the "vaccine pass":


1. Accident and Emergency Department


2. Hospital Authority General Out-patient Clinic


3. Chinese Medicine Clinic cum Teaching and Research Centre under the Hospital Authority


4. Maternal and Child Health Centre, Department of Health


5. Elderly Health Centre


6. School Dental Clinic


7. Genetic Counselling Clinic


8. Genetic Screening Clinic


9. Chest Clinic and X-ray Centre


10. Social Hygiene Clinic


11. AIDS Counselling and Testing Service


12. Integrative Treatment Centre


13. Children's Physical Intelligence Test Centre

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Some HA medical premises that provide essential services to service users, such as dialysis centres, day chemotherapy centres, day hospitals for geriatrics, etc., the relevant medical offices have implemented the same-day rapid testing arrangement due to the situation of service users, so " The "Vaccine Pass" arrangement also does not apply to such medical premises.

In addition, if service users and visitors enter the designated medical premises for services related to the prevention and control of COVID-19, such as receiving rapid test kits, receiving viral disease testing or vaccination, they may be exempted from the "Vaccine Pass" arrangement.

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The government emphasizes that the "Vaccine Pass" arrangement is based on the well-being of patients and that the administrative arrangement will not prevent the needy or injured from receiving urgent or urgent medical services.

The authorities also pointed out that chronically ill patients are at greater risk of becoming seriously ill or even dying after contracting the virus. In addition, ensuring the normal operation of medical premises is an important part of Hong Kong's epidemic prevention and control, so it is necessary to establish protection for medical staff and patients in medical premises. Barriers are necessary.

▼The first day of the vaccine pass on February 24▼


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Fourth injection | Experts advocate low immunity and high-risk groups can fight against epidemic fatigue and should relax social distancing measures Chen Zhaoshi predicts that the community has built immune barriers and social distancing measures will have a sixth wave of risks Fourth injection | People aged 18 to 59 today Available from the same day to prepare for the vaccine online appointment from next Thursday

Source: hk1

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