Coronavirus: Hong Kong’s elderly left it late to get Covid-19 shots, now worried families fear time is running out as cases soar, deaths mount


Care worker Lau had tried in vain to get her elderly father’s residential home to vaccinate him against Covid-19 as soon as possible even before Hong Kong’s fifth and deadliest wave of coronavirus cases struck.

But the care home did not arrange the Covid-19 shots in time and now Lau’s father, who is in his 90s, has caught the disease and is battling for his life after being admitted to hospital two weeks ago.

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