{"id":32448,"date":"2021-05-25T16:55:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T07:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/25\/covid-vaccine-hesitancy-could-see-hong-kong-throw-away-millions-of-doses"},"modified":"2021-05-25T16:55:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T07:55:53","slug":"covid-vaccine-hesitancy-could-see-hong-kong-throw-away-millions-of-doses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32448","title":{"rendered":"Covid vaccine hesitancy could see Hong Kong throw away millions of doses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observers say mistrust of government, disinformation and a lack of urgency mean vaccine take-up has been slow<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hong Kong could soon be throwing away millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses because not enough people are taking them before they expire, a health official has warned, saying it\u2019s \u201cnot right\u201d while other countries are scrambling for them.<\/p>\n<p>The city of 7.5 million people has bought enough doses of the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine and China\u2019s Sinovac, to vaccinate its entire population, but so far only 2.1 million have been administered since the vaccination programme launched in late February.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/25\/covid-vaccine-hesitancy-could-see-hong-kong-throw-away-millions-of-doses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observers say mistrust of government, disinformation and a lack of urgency mean vaccine take-up has been slowCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong could soon be throwing away millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses because no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32463,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32448\/revisions\/32463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}