HONG KONG – In a bid to assure residents worried about China’s Sinovac which is due to be rolled out in the global financial hub from next week, Hong Kong’s Health Secretary said that the government had not politicised any coronavirus vaccine.
Chan told media that standards had not been lowered to accept the Sinovac vaccine and that there was no pressure from Beijing to get it approved in the Chinese special administrative region.
“The government has not politicised any vaccine. In fact, we really think that one should not politicise any of the vaccination process, because really the COVID-19 vaccine is our hope,” she said in an interview at her office in government headquarters.