【Exclusive media report】Japan, a popular tourist destination for Hong Kong people, will resume tourist entry. However, according to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the list of vaccination certificates recognized by the authorities does not include Sinovac and Sinopharm. He Bailiang, director of the Center for Infection and Infectious Diseases of the University of Hong Kong, believes that if the citizens receive Sinovac for the first two shots and Fubita for the third shot, the Japanese authorities may accept it in the future; You have to wait for a while” to enter.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said last week that border controls would be gradually eased as soon as next month. However, data from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs shows that for vaccines that are not vaccinated in Japan, the authorities only recognize 6 vaccine brands for the first two shots, including Fubita; The authorities pointed out that the vaccines vaccinated by immigrants do not need to be all the same, and the approved list does not include Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines for the time being.
In an interview with the radio this morning, He Boliang pointed out that the local government does not only look at a single vaccine brand. He believes that even if the first two shots are given to Kexing, such as the third “ditch shot”, the chances of being accepted by the local government will be greater in the future. He also pointed out that entry restrictions depend on the overall epidemic situation. For example, the UK did not accept the Sinovac vaccine a year ago, but it has been changed to accept it now. Looking through the data, the British authorities recognized Sinovac as an effective vaccine in November last year, and the latest entry measures have been relaxed to exempt from vaccines, isolation, and testing.
Refers to a million people who have not received the third injection and proposes to cancel the six-month grace period
He also mentioned that at present, most of the cases in Hong Kong are asymptomatic, so the focus of the epidemic prevention policy is no longer on case tracking, but on vaccination. He said that he noticed that 1 million people had already completed the second injection for three months, but the third injection was delayed. He suggested that the authorities should cancel the six-month grace period and instead require the public to have the injection after three months.
As for the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong KongUrgent appeal issued yesterdayreferring to the potential large clusters of infection in Kennedy Town and surrounding areas. He Bailiang said that he is not too worried and will return to the campus for teaching this afternoon. He will take precautionary measures and wear masks during the period. You can still go out to eat with confidence.