Covid vaccine hesitancy could see Hong Kong throw away millions of doses

Observers say mistrust of government, disinformation and a lack of urgency mean vaccine take-up has been slow

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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's not right" while other countries are scrambling for them.

The city of 7.5 million people has bought enough doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and China's Sinovac, to vaccinate its entire population, but so far only 2.1 million have been administered since the vaccination programme launched in late February.