{"id":11028,"date":"2021-01-21T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118580\/coronavirus-how-close-hong-kong-rolling-out-its"},"modified":"2021-01-21T02:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T02:00:22","slug":"coronavirus-how-close-is-hong-kong-to-rolling-out-its-covid-19-vaccination-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/coronavirus-how-close-is-hong-kong-to-rolling-out-its-covid-19-vaccination-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: how close is Hong Kong to rolling out its Covid-19 vaccination scheme?"},"content":{"rendered":"As Hong Kong struggles to contain its fourth wave of coronavirus infections, many have pinned their hopes on the coming vaccination scheme for a return to normality.These wishes took a step closer to reality on Monday after a government advisory panel recommended the BioNTech vaccine for use, although the jab is still subject to the health minister\u2019s final approval. Factors such as availability, safety and efficacy of other Covid-19 vaccines will also determine how jabs are distributed to\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118580\/coronavirus-how-close-hong-kong-rolling-out-its\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Hong Kong struggles to contain its fourth wave of coronavirus infections, many have pinned their hopes on the coming vaccination scheme for a return to normality.These wishes took a step closer to reality on Monday after a government advisory panel &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":911,"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\/11028"}],"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\/911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11029,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028\/revisions\/11029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}