The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 143 days since February 26, 2021.
 
     So far, about 4 826 800 doses of vaccines have been administered under the Vaccination Programme. Details are as follows:
 

	Number of persons receiving Sinovac vaccine	Number of persons receiving BioNTech vaccine	Total number of doses
First vaccine dose	1 143 600	1 673 500	2 817 100
Second vaccine dose	828 300	1 181 400	2 009 700

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (July 18), about 55 300 persons have received vaccination and about 35 300 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
 

	Sinovac vaccine	BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose	5 700	21 000
Number of persons receiving second dose	9 700	18 900
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs)	97%	98%
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses	4 100	31 200

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 0.00am today, there were 10 cases of ambulance transfer to hospital from CVCs. They were sent to hospital after experiencing common side effects after vaccination and were in stable condition. Eight of them were discharged, one person was admitted for observation and one person was discharged against medical advice.

Ends/Sunday, July 18, 2021
Issued at HKT 21:53

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