Hong Kong vaccine rates spike as outbreak shatters Covid-19-free dreams

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Hong Kong vaccine rates spike as outbreak shatters Covid19-free dreams

The global financial hub had been able to keep the coronavirus pandemic from disrupting activities for most of the past two years, using stringent border restrictions.

“Getting the elderly vaccinated has been difficult,” said Lau Chak Sing, head of the medicine department at the University of Hong Kong, who blames, among other factors, the “lack of a sense of urgency because Hong Kong was doing very well.”

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