The Hong Kong Children's Hospital will provide Sinovac vaccines for children aged 6 months to 3 years from today (15th).
The Secretary for the Civil Service, Ms Yeung Ho Pei-yin, visited the Community Vaccination Centre of the Children's Hospital this morning to inspect the vaccination status of young children.
Li Ziliang, executive director of the Children's Hospital, said that from the end of last year to the beginning of August this year, there have been 14,000 confirmed cases of children under the age of three, of which 2 died and 33 were still hospitalized.
Recently, the number of confirmed cases of young children has been increasing, and parents who accompanied their children to get the vaccine expressed a little concern, hoping that the vaccine can ensure the safety of their children.
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From today onwards, the Children's Hospital Vaccination Center will provide both Kexing and Fubitai vaccinations. Yang Hebeiyin pointed out after inspection that the on-site arrangements and instructions are clear, making it convenient for citizens to receive the corresponding vaccines.
She also said that in order to facilitate and encourage more young children to be vaccinated, the threshold for the number of people to be vaccinated in schools will be reduced from 30 to 10. She reiterated that the number of confirmed cases and severe cases of young children has been increasing recently. I hope parents do not hesitate. , vaccinate your children as soon as possible.
On the first day that the Children's Hospital opened for the vaccination of Kexing vaccines for children over 6 months old, Ms. Huang brought her daughter under three years old to receive the first dose of the vaccine. She said that she decided to make an appointment for her daughter after she knew that the age was lowered, and she could make an appointment earlier. Get vaccinated to give yourself more peace of mind.
Recently, there have been serious cases of young children infected with the virus. She expressed a little worried, but she can get vaccinated now, and she hopes that the vaccine will protect her daughter.
When asked if she had considered the Forbidet vaccine waiting for children, she said that she did not think much about it, and believed that the Sinovac vaccine was milder for young children.
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