The World Health Organization has found that administering the shots at the same time will not affect the efficacy of the Covid vaccine, Hui said on a radio program yesterday. I think that will actually increase the vaccination rate tremendously if we can do that." As of Saturday, more than 4.5 million Hongkongers have received Covid vaccine shot, taking the city's vaccination rate to 68.1 percent. But it also meant the herd immunity to flu [in each region] had been weakened and may lead to a surge in flu cases this year, he added. Hong Kong yesterday recorded four imported Covid cases from the Philippines and Saudi Arabia, taking the city's total tally to 12,324 infections with 213 deaths.

Source: The Standard October 24, 2021 21:01 UTC