Macau’s COVID-19 vaccination rate reached 80.2 percent at 6:30 p.m. yesterday, i.e., four fifths of the population had received at least one jab, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement late last night.
According to the statement, as of 6:30 p.m. yesterday around 547,000 people in Macau had been vaccinated against COVID-19.
The statement said that the 80.2 percent inoculation rate “has paved a solid foundation for the construction of a COVID-19 immunity barrier protecting residents’ lives and health”.
The statement said that according to data early this month from Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection (CHP), those who were never or not fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus accounted for 91.3 percent of 1,341 COVID-19 fatalities in Hong Kong.
In addition, the death rate in Hong Kong is a mere 0.04 percent among those who had received two COVID-19 jabs, while the death rate stands at 1.25 percent among those who had not been inoculated against the novel coronavirus, the statement said.
According to the Macau Health Bureau’s (SSM) COVID-19 vaccination website, as of 4 p.m. yesterday 495,992 people had received two or more doses.
This photo released yesterday shows a nurse preparing to administer a COVID-19 jab to a male senior citizen at an activity centre for seniors run by charitable organisation Tung Sin Tong in Areia Preta on Tuesday. Photo: GCS
