New vaccine has been specially developed for youngsters; jabs available at Conde de São Januário Hospital, Ocean Gardens, Ilha Verde and Macao Forum.
BioNTech vaccines
All new imported cases, including one Omicron variant, classified as asymptomatic and imported, so have not raised city’s novel coronavirus tally from 79.
Over 60s can also get inactivated vaccine shots if healthy and facing increased risk; Macao’s inoculation rate passes 70%.
Over-60s can get inoculated with same vaccine if they face increased risk; all results from Sunday’s NAT drive reported negative.
Vaccination facility now provides both BioNTech and Sinopharm inoculations; 10,000 slots available every day in Macao.
Health Bureau officials plan to brief secondary school pupils about vaccine’s effectiveness and launch outreach inoculation programme in September.
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.
The fresh batches await results of investigation into the defective packaging which brought the vaccination programme to a temporary halt.
After halting the German-made jabs on Wednesday, government has yet to announce when it will restart the full vaccination programme.
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