Hong Kong health experts recommend Covid XBB variant jabs for non-high-risk groups as initial vaccination


Hong Kong health experts have recommended that non-high-risk groups receive the Covid-19 vaccine targeting the XBB variant as their initial inoculation.

The specialists on Wednesday night said that when the supply of the vaccine was sufficient, its use for first inoculations should be opened up to healthy adults.

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