Coronavirus: Hong Kong to offer home pickup service, mobile vaccine vehicles for the elderly as daily jab numbers dwindle
- New services yet another attempt to boost take-up among a vulnerable demographic that has lagged behind other age groups in taking vaccine
- Secretary for Civil Service Patrick Nip says government expects recent jab numbers – now at about 3,000 a day – to continue to drop
Elderly Hong Kong residents seeking to get vaccinated for Covid-19 will soon only need to pick up the phone and a coach will drive them to an inoculation centre, a senior official has said.
On Saturday, the city confirmed six new Covid-19 cases, all of which were imported. That included the 55-year-old Russian diplomat whose preliminary-positive test triggered an overnight lockdown on Friday at his residential building in Grand Promenade in Sai Wan Ho, where he was self-isolating as he was exempt from hotel quarantine.
The other five comprised three domestic helpers, from the Philippines and Indonesia, and two travellers from Britain.
The infections took the city’s total number of confirmed cases to 12,291, with 213 related deaths. Fewer than 10 people tested preliminary-positive.
Earlier, Secretary for Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen said the government would continue to press its community vaccination campaign, as the number of residents getting jabbed was dwindling.