Coronavirus Hong Kong: 'recovered elderly patients should still get vaccinated'; goal of 90 per cent inoculation just a day away, minister says | South China Morning Post

A leading Hong Kong health expert has suggested recovered elderly Covid-19 patients should still get vaccinated, and much sooner than is currently recommended, as a top official said the city's goal of 90 per cent of the population receiving their first shot could be achieved by Saturday. Professor Lau Yu-lung, who chairs the government's scientific committee on vaccine preventable diseases, told a radio programme on Friday that recovered elderly patients could get jabbed within a month of beating the virus, just a fraction of the officially recommended wait time. "People can still get vaccinated after infection. We could wait a…