{"id":51841,"date":"2023-01-13T19:36:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T10:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/13\/chinese-flock-to-hong-kong-to-get-private-covid-booster-shots-mrna-vaccine"},"modified":"2023-01-13T19:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T10:36:39","slug":"chinese-flock-to-hong-kong-to-get-private-covid-booster-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51841","title":{"rendered":"Chinese flock to Hong Kong to get private Covid booster shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel packages also advertised in Macau as interest grows in mRNA vaccines unavailable on mainland<\/p>\n<p>Private services offering Chinese travellers access to mRNA vaccines are attracting droves of mainlanders to Hong Kong and Macau seeking a booster shot that their government has refused to approve.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/09\/excitement-and-apprehension-as-china-loosens-zero-covid-measures\">dismantling of the country\u2019s zero-Covid policy<\/a> last month, China\u2019s government also lifted quarantine and other border restrictions. It prompted a wave of interest in overseas travel, particularly for the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/06\/anxious-lunar-new-year-in-china-as-millions-travel-while-covid-spreads\">lunar new year holiday<\/a> later this month. However, there also appears to be a large contingent chasing the mRNA bivalent vaccines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/13\/chinese-flock-to-hong-kong-to-get-private-covid-booster-shots-mrna-vaccine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel packages also advertised in Macau as interest grows in mRNA vaccines unavailable on mainlandPrivate services offering Chinese travellers access to mRNA vaccines are attracting droves of mainlanders to Hong Kong and Macau seeking a booster shot t&#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":[41,50,1066,48,914,584,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","category-macau","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","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\/51841","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=51841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51842,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51841\/revisions\/51842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}