Health experts have suggested selling millions of Hong Kong's unused Covid-19 vaccines or pausing the phased supply from manufacturers to minimise waste, as the government explores donating the shots while racing against looming expiry dates. Nearly 4 million jabs from Chinese producer Sinovac and Germany's BioNTech have arrived in the city since February, but about 2 million of them are still languishing in storage amid a sluggish inoculation.
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Hong Kong vaccines: information overload, lack of context provoking ‘unnecessary’ fears of Sinovac jabs, experts say A health care worker prepares a dose of China s Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine. Photo: Reuters
Hongkongers fears over the safety of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines - exacerbated by recent medical emergencies involving people who received the shots - are an unnecessary side effect of broad reporting guidelines and a failure by authorities to put the events in the proper context, health experts have said.
The city has experienced an apparent plunge in public confidence in the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccine since the first death of a recent recipient of the jab was revealed last week. Reports of two more deaths and three other people requiring intensive care after receiving the shots surfaced in the past week.
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