The COVID-19 Vaccination Programme has been implemented for 158 days since February 26, 2021.
 
     So far, about 5 787 800 doses of vaccines have been administered under the Vaccination Programme. Details are as follows:
 

	Number of persons receiving Sinovac vaccine	Number of persons receiving BioNTech vaccine	Total number of doses
First vaccine dose	1 288 900	2 003 600	3 292 400
Second vaccine dose	1 002 400	1 493 000	2 495 400

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 8pm today (August 2), about 68 800 persons have received vaccination and about 48 300 new vaccination bookings have been made online. Details are as follows:
 

	Sinovac vaccine	BioNTech vaccine
Number of persons receiving first dose	12 900	23 500
Number of persons receiving second dose	11 700	20 700
Overall percentage of persons receiving vaccines at Community Vaccination Centres (CVCs)	96%	98%
Number of online bookings for receiving first and second vaccine doses	6 600	41 600

* The numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
 
     In the 24 hours ending at 0.00am today, there were 13 cases of ambulance transfer to hospital from CVCs. They were sent to hospital after experiencing common side effects after vaccination and were in stable condition. Seven of them were discharged, four persons were admitted for observation and two persons were discharged against medical advice.

Ends/Monday, August 2, 2021
Issued at HKT 21:39

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