Hong Kong is looking at prioritising Covid-19 vaccination for young people aged 12 to 17 under a plan to extend the Sinovac jabs programme to minors, the Post has learned.
An official source said the government was considering only offering the vaccine to older children initially, a similar arrangement to the one in mainland China, but added the administration would first seek advice from the Centre for Health Protection’s joint scientific committee.
The government’s Covid-19 vaccine advisers on Monday recommended lowering the minimum age to three for getting vaccinated with the mainland-produced Sinovac jab, from its current level of 18 years old.
Currently, 12 is the minimum age for receiving a coronavirus jab in Hong Kong, but only with a BioNTech vaccine. The German manufacturer has not submitted an application to lower that.
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