About 40 per cent of Hong Kong’s young people averse to getting coronavirus vaccine shots: survey
- Welfare group Youth New World interviewed 412 Hongkongers aged below 30 between December 23 and 31 as part of an online poll
- Top three reasons cited by those who do not want to get the shots are doubts over effectiveness, worries about side effects and lack of choice
Many of Hong Kong’s young people are worried about contracting the coronavirus but two in five say they will not get the Covid-19 vaccine, a survey has found.
Almost 90 per cent of the respondents were unhappy with the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, with about 55 per cent saying the measures adopted by the authorities were “too lax”.
The welfare group Youth New World, which serves lower-income families and their children, interviewed 412 Hongkongers aged below 30 between December 23 and 31 as part of an online poll.
Around 41 per cent of respondents expressed reservations about getting vaccinated. Only 8 per cent said they would “definitely” get the shots, while another 37 per cent would “possibly” get them. Some 14 per cent had no comment.
The top three reasons cited by those who did not want to get shots were “doubts over the effectiveness”, “worries about side effects” and “no choice of the manufacturer of the vaccine that is to be taken”.
But about 6 per cent thought they would not get infected.