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Hong Kong fourth wave: Pfizer vaccine concern must not delay protecting elderly against Covid-19, says top government adviser
A top government adviser has said Hong Kong’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign in elderly care homes should launch next month as planned, despite reports in Norway of a mounting death toll among older recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.Ahead of Monday’s anticipated meeting of the coronavirus vaccine panel on whether to approve the German-made vaccine, Dr Lam Ching-choi said the deadly threat that Covid-19 posed to elderly people justified continuing with the first stage of the inoculation…