Health experts have dismissed concerns about a Hong Kong government-subsidised flu vaccine that does not have clinical trial data on pregnant women, saying the decades-long technology is safe and people with less confidence can turn to the private sector for shots. Authorities said on Tuesday that Hong Kong had entered the summer flu season, a…
The head of a paediatric infectious diseases unit at a Hong Kong public hospital has said his ward is now full of young, unvaccinated Covid-19 patients, urging parents to get their children inoculated to prevent severe symptoms. Mike Kwan Yat-wah and another medical expert said on Saturday that they expected the current wave of infections,…
The head of a paediatric infectious diseases unit at a Hong Kong public hospital has said his ward is now full of young, unvaccinated Covid-19 patients, urging parents to get their children inoculated to prevent severe symptoms. Mike Kwan Yat-wah warned on Saturday that the number of children with Covid-19 had risen significantly recently. “As…
A Hong Kong doctor has become the first practitioner among seven facing government accusations to be convicted over issuing Covid-19 vaccination exemption certificates without making a proper medical diagnosis. Appearing at the District Court on Friday, 62-year-old Dr Wong Ping-leung pleaded guilty to the offence of issuing notices without conducting proper checks between February and…