Hong Kong is not politicising any Covid-19 vaccine: Health chief

A worker performs a quality check in the packaging facility of Sinovac Biotech in Beijing on Sept 24, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Hong Kong's Health Secretary said on Friday (Feb 19) that the government had not politicised any coronavirus vaccine, as she sought to reassure residents worried about China's Sinovac, due to be rolled out in the global financial hub from next week.

Professor Sophia Chan told Reuters that standards had not been lowered to accept the Sinovac vaccine and 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.

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