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Hong Kong needs to more than double the number of elderly people being prescribed Covid-19 antivirals as many of them are unable to take full advantage of other healthcare resources aimed at protecting residents from the virus, medical experts have said. Microbiologist Dr Ho Pak-leung, head of the University of Hong Kong’s Centre for Infection, said on Tuesday that the current coronavirus antiviral distribution rate of below 40 per cent among people aged 60 or above was “unacceptably low” and needed to reach at least 80 per cent. “It shows our elderly residents are lacking community support to some extent....
