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Ho Pak Leung hopes that the government will return to science and advocate the outreach team to vaccinate the elderly in residential homes

2022-07-25T05:19:02.190Z


The epidemic in Hong Kong continues. Director of the Center for Infection and Infectious Diseases of the University of Hong Kong, Ho Pak Leung, said today (25th) that the vaccination rate of children and the elderly is not ideal. A certain proportion of them are still unvaccinated, and many have expired.


The epidemic continues in Hong Kong. Director of the Center for Infection and Infectious Diseases of the University of Hong Kong, Ho Pak Leung, said today (25th) that the vaccination rate of children and the elderly is not ideal, and a certain proportion of them are still unvaccinated, and many have not received a shot.

He also compared Singapore with Hong Kong. In the past two weeks, there have been more than 10,000 confirmed cases every day, but both the number of hospitalizations and the number of deaths are lower than those of Hong Kong, only because the local area has done enough vaccination.


In addition, He Bailiang pointed out that the current outreach service can provide Fubitai vaccination, and residents should be actively recommended to receive Fubitai vaccine, because Fubitai has a good effect on preventing severe illness in the elderly, and hopes that the government will return to science. Thai is much better."


He Bailiang pointed out that the current outreach service can provide Fubitai vaccination, and residents should be actively recommended to receive Fubitai vaccine, because Fubitai has a better effect on the prevention of serious illness in the elderly.

(File photo / Photo by Lu Yiming)

He Bailiang, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Infectious Diseases of the University of Hong Kong, said in an interview with Business Taiwan's "Starting on a Sunny Day" that vaccination is the top priority of Hong Kong's response to the epidemic, but the vaccination rate of children and the elderly is not ideal. He mentioned that there are A certain percentage of people still haven’t received a single shot. Even though the antibody level will drop over time after vaccination, there are still many people who have not received a single shot. For example, among the population aged 3 to 11 who have received two shots, 80% chose Sinovac vaccine, among which 250,000 people Only 1 in 10 have received a third dose of the vaccine.

He also compared Singapore with Hong Kong. In the past two weeks, there have been more than 10,000 confirmed cases every day, but the number of hospitalizations and deaths are lower than those in Hong Kong, only because the local area has done enough vaccination work, especially the elderly are better promoted.

▼On July 19, the enclosure inspection of Danfeng Building in Caihong Village▼


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"The data is a lot better than the Thai department"

In addition, the government will invite outreach teams to provide outreach vaccination services at least once a week in residential homes to increase the vaccination rate of residential homes.

He Bailiang pointed out that the current outreach service can provide Fubitai vaccination, and Fubitai has a good effect on the prevention of severe illness in the elderly. He hopes that the government will return to science. "The data is a lot better than Fubitai." Bitai vaccine.

He also pointed out that many elderly people do not know that taking new crown oral drugs as soon as possible will help stabilize their condition, but recently, only less than half of the confirmed elderly who are suitable for taking antiviral drugs have been prescribed drugs.

▼On May 30th, citizens rushed to take the third vaccine to cope with the vaccine pass▼


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Source: hk1

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