Scientific Committees under CHP issue consensus interim recommendations on use of COVID-19 vaccine and monkeypox vaccine in Hong Kong

17th June 2022 - (Hong Kong) The Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases and the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases (JSC) under the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health convened an online meeting yesterday (June 16) to discuss the use of the Comirnaty vaccine and monkeypox vaccine in Hong Kong. The consensus interim recommendations have been published today. The first part of the meeting, which revisited the use of the Comirnaty vaccine, was joined by experts of the Chief Executive's expert advisory panel (EAP) and the Expert Committee on Clinical Events Assessment Following COVID-19…