Coronavirus: teams to start vaccinating employees at workplace from next week to boost Hong Kong’s inoculation rate
- Civil Service Bureau says it is in talks with construction sector, consultancy firms and public utilities to launch programme
- Fourteen-day hotel quarantine instead of home isolation announced for arrivals from Taiwan amid surge of cases on island
Covid-19 vaccination teams will start administering jabs to employees at their own workplaces next week under an outreach service for companies that aims to boost Hong Kong’s sluggish inoculation rate.
Health authorities also announced on Friday a tightening of quarantine rules for travellers from Taiwan, imposing 14 days of confinement in a designated hotel instead of at home. The new measures, taking effect on Sunday, were unveiled amid a recent surge of locally transmitted coronavirus cases on the island.
The Civil Service Bureau, which is in charge of the city’s Covid-19 vaccination programme, said the outreach service would be offered to different sectors and businesses as a convenient way for people to receive the jabs.
“The bureau is now working with the construction sector, consultancy firms and public utilities to prepare and launch the outreach services,” the bureau said, without elaborating on the roles those organisations would have.
The service will be operated by the medical institutions already running the city’s network of community vaccination centres, according to the government.