Starting from Wednesday (Aug. 11), no COVID-19 vaccination booking will be required for Hong Kong elderly people aged 60 or above. At around 7 a.m. this morning, there were around a dozen citizens waiting outside the Kwun Chung community vaccination center, where the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccine is provided.
Eligible citizens aged 60 and above can drop by at one of the city's 24 community inoculation centers to take a jab now. This new arrangement comes after the government opened walk-in vaccination for citizens aged 70 and above on July 29, which was well-received by elderly citizens.
Walk-in tickets will be distributed at the vaccination centers every day from 7:45 a.m. and people who secure their spots will be scheduled to take their jabs during the day.
Most centers will distribute 200 walk-in tickets per day while those in Tung Chung and at the Hong Kong International Airport will each distribute 100 tickets every day.
There will be a total of 4,600 tickets distributed by all 24 community centers each day.
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