Leading microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung and three scholars wrote in the newspaper, saying that it is of great urgency to introduce citywide vaccination and members of the public should have the choice to choose which vaccines to be injected. The SAR government has shopped three Covid-19 vaccines, Sinovac Biotech, Fosun Pharma and BioNTech and AstraZeneca and University of Oxford. The experts compared the three vaccines, recommended theFosun Pharma and BioNTech’s vaccine as it was relatively safe and had better clinical protection. The Sinovac vaccines were the safest yet had a shorter protection period. However, the experts pointed out that the vaccines cannot prevent asymptomatic infections.

Source: The Standard December 25, 2020 07:30 UTC