Hong Kong residents are reportedly rushing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 because they fear the reopening of the border with mainland China will result in an influx of cases.
Appointments are fully booked on the island — in some cases through February, according to Reuters, which said vaccine uptake was sluggish at first but that 83% of Hong Kong residents have received three doses of the BioNTech shots or China’s Sinovac version.
Hong Kong is working to reopen the border and relax travel rules after the communist government in Beijing made a U-turn on its zero-COVID rules, sparking a flood of infections.