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HKFP: ‘Covid-19 does not discriminate’: Thousands of refugees, asylum-seekers barred from Hong Kong vaccination programme Welcome to the new Hong Kong ! More than 13,000 refugees and asylum-seekers in Hong Kong are barred from the government Covid-19 vaccination programme despite calls by global humanitarian bodies urgently to make the jabs available to the millions displaced worldwide. NGOs say the group are excluded from the current vaccination rollout because they are not recognised as Hong Kong residents. File photo: RF Studio/Pexels. “Our immigration status should not be an excuse to prevent us from getting vaccinated. We already face enough discrimination and...
