Health Bureau officials plan to brief secondary school pupils about vaccine’s effectiveness and launch outreach inoculation programme in September.
BioNTech mRNA
New supply from Germany doubly welcome as supplies are running low; 26 per cent of the population vaccinated, with no new Covid-19 case recorded for five days.
Extensive tests have shown that the vaccine is both safe and effective and youngsters – who could infect adults – need to be inoculated.
No appointment needed for jabs, but BioNtech mRNA vaccine shortage may loom on the horizon in the near future.
Health Bureau states that the 48-year-old’s death was coincidental, and not a consequence of having been vaccinated two weeks prior.
Health Bureau concludes that 48-year-old man’s case is not related to his vaccination.
Replacement batch will be delivered shortly, although only about 10 per cent of residents have volunteered for a jab so far.
SSM officials will conduct tests before putting the new doses to use; more than 24,000 have completed both vaccinations so far.
After halting the German-made jabs on Wednesday, government has yet to announce when it will restart the full vaccination programme.