{"id":11016,"date":"2021-01-21T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118557\/coronavirus-hong-kong-set-approve-biontech-jab"},"modified":"2021-01-21T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T00:00:17","slug":"coronavirus-hong-kong-set-to-approve-biontech-jab-before-end-of-week-as-deep-freeze-storage-facility-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/coronavirus-hong-kong-set-to-approve-biontech-jab-before-end-of-week-as-deep-freeze-storage-facility-selected\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Hong Kong set to approve BioNTech jab before end of week as deep-freeze storage facility selected"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong is poised to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine before the end of the week as a Kwai Chung warehouse has been selected to store the vials, overcoming a key logistical concern in the scheme to administer the first million doses.Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan Siu-chee is set to approve use of the German firm\u2019s vaccine, developed with American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer for the global market except China, paving the way for the first round of 1 million inoculations\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118557\/coronavirus-hong-kong-set-approve-biontech-jab\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong is poised to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine before the end of the week as a Kwai Chung warehouse has been selected to store the vials, overcoming a key logistical concern in the scheme to administer the first million doses.Secre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1092,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11244,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions\/11244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}