South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Coronavirus Hong Kong: first Covid-19 vaccines land in city” – below is their description.
One million doses of one of the Covid-19 vaccines arrived in Hong Kong on February 19, 2021. The first batch of Sinovac’s CoronaVac jabs touched down on Cathay Pacific flight C391 at about 5.30pm local time. Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen and Secretary for Food and Heath Professor Sophia Chan Siu-chee inspected the medical consignment at the airport. Hong Kong aims to launch mass vaccinations by the end of the month and the two officials said that the mainland-produced vaccine is safe and appealed to the public to take part in the government’s free vaccination programme.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.