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FILE PHOTO: Medical workers in protective suits attend to people at a makeshift community testing centre for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Hong Kong, China November 30, 2020. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong has ordered 15 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, split between China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd. and Pfizer/BioNTech, twice the number of its residents, the city’s leader, Carrie Lam, said on Friday.
The first batch of 1 million will arrive from China in January, while another million from Pfizer/BioNTech is due in the first quarter of next year.
The government aims for 30 million doses in total, as each person needs two injections to be fully vaccinated, and is also in talks to buy the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The latter is expected to arrive in the second half of next year.
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