{"id":39091,"date":"2021-11-20T18:44:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T09:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/20\/hong-kong-authorises-sinovac-covid-vaccine-for-children-aged-3-to-17"},"modified":"2021-11-20T18:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T09:44:32","slug":"hong-kong-authorises-sinovac-covid-vaccine-for-children-aged-3-to-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39091","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong authorises Sinovac Covid vaccine for children aged 3 to 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benefits of approving age extension outweigh the risks, says secretary for food and health<\/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 has approved lowering the age limit for the Covid-19 vaccine from China\u2019s Sinovac Biotech to three, down from 18 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s secretary for food and health, Sophia Chan, said in a statement published on Saturday: \u201cAdolescents aged 12 to 17 will be accorded priority to receive the CoronaVac vaccine, with a view to extending to children of a younger age group at a later stage.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/20\/hong-kong-authorises-sinovac-covid-vaccine-for-children-aged-3-to-17\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benefits of approving age extension outweigh the risks, says secretary for food and healthCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong has approved lowering the age limit for the Covid-19 vaccine from China\u2019s Sinovac Biotech to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,1066,48,914,916,299,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","category-microbiology","category-science","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39091","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39092,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39091\/revisions\/39092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}