Published: 9:03pm, 29 Apr 2025Updated: 9:44pm, 29 Apr 2025
Hong Kong health experts have called for older residents to get at least one Covid-19 booster shot annually after the city recorded 10 coronavirus-related deaths in one month, with fewer than 100,000 vaccine doses given to those aged 50 and above over the past year.
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A total of 98,049 doses of vaccines were administered to people aged 50 and older over the 12-month period up to the end of March, according to the Centre for Health Protection. A further breakdown by age groups was not available.
About 3.56 million people were aged 50 or above in Hong Kong as of the end of last year, according to official population data.
Figures from the centre also showed that 4,758 doses were given to those aged 12 to 49, while only 1,258 doses were administered to children aged six months to 11 years over the same period.
Ivan Hung Fan-ngai, chair professor of infectious diseases at the University of Hong Kong, said a surge in Covid-19 infections normally occurred every six months because of the decreasing levels of antibodies in the population.
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He said the number of vaccine doses given to the population over the past 12 months remained small.