Bookings for coronavirus vaccines jump eightfold in Hong Kong after eligibility expanded to cover most of population

Hong Kong’s Covid-19 vaccination programme received a substantial boost on Tuesday, with an eightfold surge in online reservations after the government lowered the eligibility threshold for recipients to 30 years amid a faltering take-up rate affected by persistent concerns about possible side effects.Online bookings for the two Covid-19 vaccines jumped to 144,000 from 18,600 a day earlier, while three of the 19 centres offering the BioNTech vaccine and 17 of the 18 public clinics providing the…

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