Hong Kong Covid-19 vaccine rollout hampered by reliance on Chinese shots, East Asia News & Top Stories


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HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - When Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam rolled up her shirt sleeve to get the Asian financial hub's first Covid-19 vaccination last month, she gave a ringing endorsement of the shots produced by mainland Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech Ltd. "We are taking the Sinovac vaccine today, which was developed and manufactured in the mainland, because this is the first vaccine that has arrived in Hong Kong," Mrs Lam said on Feb 22 as she got inoculated in a public ceremony with her top aides. Since then, confidence in both Sinovac and her government's vaccine drive has...