Coronavirus: Hong Kong experts push for Johnson & Johnson vaccine to replace AstraZeneca after report; city expects about 10 cases, mostly imported


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Hong Kong medical experts have called on the government to replace its procurement of AstraZeneca with the jabs developed by Johnson & Johnson amid safety concerns over the possible link between the British-Swedish vaccine and blood clots. Their advice came as the city recorded 10 coronavirus cases on Thursday, with eight out of those infections imported, mainly from the Philippines and Indonesia. The sole local untraceable case was a 70-year-old resident of block 3 of Oi Fai House in Tuen Mun’s Yau Oi estate, where another infection had been confirmed the previous day. The new cases raised the city’s overall...