Call for vaccination boost as Covid cases rise in Hong Kong


A student from Christian Nationals' Evangelism Commission Lau Wing Sang Secondary School in Hong Kong receives a Covid-19 vaccine at a community vaccination center at Queen Elizabeth Stadium on July 14, 2021. - Photo: HKSAR Govt file

HONG KONG: Surveillance indicators, including respiratory specimen detection rate and viral load from sewage surveillance, marked an increase in Covid-19 activity in Hong Kong in the past few weeks, prompting government health advisers to call for boosting vaccination, especially for the high-risk priority groups.

The Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases and the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases under the Centre for Health Protection made the call after a meeting on Tuesday (July 16).

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