Hong Kong should keep zero-Covid strategy until more people are vaccinated, government advisor says
Hong Kong needs to stick to its zero-Covid strategy until more people are vaccinated, a government advisor told CNBC on Wednesday.
"If 95% of our eligible population are being vaccinated fully with three doses, then the chance is that we are able to open our border," said Yuen Kwok-yung, who is part of Hong Kong's expert advisory panel for Covid-19. The Chinese city is far from reaching that target. Only 68.6% of the total population has received two doses of a vaccine as of Wednesday,Some 322,781 people, or around 4.4% of the population, have received their third shot.
One way to increase vaccination rates would be to require a vaccine passport to go about daily life, said Yuen, who is also head of the department of microbiology at the University of Hong Kong. "Perhaps that is [the] only way, like Israel, to ensure that a high vaccination rate will be achieved," he said. Fully vaccinated people in Israel are issued a
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