People walk along a fresh produce street market in the Jordan area of the Yau Tsim Mong district of Kowloon in Hong Kong on Jan 22, 2021, an area of dense housing which has seen a recent spike in Covid-19 cases. - AFP
HONG KONG, Jan. 25 (Xinhua): Hong Kong has given nod to the emergency use of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine developed by Fosun Pharma and BioNTech, and the first one million doses are expected to arrive in Hong Kong in late February.
Sophia Chan, Secretary for Food and Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government on Monday approved the emergency use of the vaccine, after taking the assessment of an advisory panel on Covid-19 vaccines as a reference.
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