‘Get vaccinated for yourselves and loved ones, tak mm tak?’: Singapore’s Ho Ching urges Hong Kong’s elderly to get vaccinated amid Omicron surge
- The wife of Singapore’s PM Lee Hsien Loong has urged seniors in Hong Kong to set aside distrust of the authorities as a fifth wave of infections sweeps the city
- Vaccination hesitancy among seniors has dragged on Hong Kong’s aim of having at least 90 per cent of its eligible population inoculated from the coronavirus
Forty per cent of Hong Kong residents aged 70 and above – about 397,000 people – remain unvaccinated, even though jabs became available to them as far back as last February.
Vaccination hesitancy among seniors has dragged on Hong Kong’s aim of having at least 90 per cent of its eligible population inoculated from the coronavirus.
Some 85.9 per cent of all Hong Kong residents eligible for vaccinations have received at least one shot of a Sinovac or BioNTech vaccine.
Writing on her widely-followed Facebook page on Monday, Ho said she hoped “friends and families in HK would help persuade their old folks and their vulnerable to be vaccinated as soon as possible”.
“They should especially put aside their distrust or mistrust of the government, their memories of their flight from China, or any other reason for distrust of authorities,” Ho wrote. “Don’t wait till it’s too late, and don’t wait for regrets when it is too late.”
