Letters | Hong Kong Covid vaccines: time to make it law

Name: Hong Kong domestic helpers slam ‘discriminatory’ Covid-19 rules
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To have the city face vaccine expiry reflects the government’s inability to connect, but the people must also realise that not getting vaccinated isn’t a political stance but a failing against their friends, families and city

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Barely a fifth of eligible Hongkongers have had at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and the city has a three-month window before the first batch of Fosun-BioNTech shots becomes out of date. Photo: May Tse

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Published: 6:25am, 28 May 2021Updated: 6:25am, 28 May 2021

It is the law that we pay taxes, have a driving licence, require a passport for travel, carry and produce our identity card when required, and obey all the laws that make Hong Kong a safe, civilised city.

The government had no qualms about mandating that domestic helpers get vaccinated in order to have their contracts renewed. While this reeked of racism and snobbery, and was eventually withdrawn, it proved the government can act.

It is disgusting that up to 2 million vaccine doses run the risk of expiring and will be discarded. This is a shameful condemnation of both Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan Siu-chee and Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and their continued inability to connect with Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong domestic helpers slam ‘discriminatory’ Covid-19 rules

Their failure reveals the fact that vaccination must be made mandatory for every Hong Kong resident. Failing to get vaccinated isn’t a political stance, it is a failing of people against their friends, families and Hong Kong.

Many of us accept that our glorious city is a part of China. However, Beijing’s insistence that patriots govern is only half the answer.

Hong Kong suffers not from its relationship with the mainland but rather from the failings of a chief executive who, as the city’s youth lose employment, thinks it fine to comment she has too much cash at home, and a secretary for food and health who oversaw the procurement of food that made some returnees staying at a quarantine centre unwell.

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Letters | Hong Kong Covid vaccines: time to make it law