Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip visited the office of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Central today to view the administration of a COVID-19 vaccine to its staff.

Arranged by the Government's outreach vaccination service, more than 370 of the firm's staff were given the BioNTech vaccine today, marking the highest number of doses administered at an enterprise in a single day since the launch of the outreach service.

The staff will be granted vaccination leave after receiving the jab.

Mr Nip expressed gratitude for the community's enthusiastic support for the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme.

He said the Civil Service Bureau is proactively promoting the outreach vaccination service in a bid to help staff of more enterprises and groups to get vaccinated in a convenient manner.

Noting that the COVID-19 virus is raging across the globe, Mr Nip added that it is particularly important for staff of global professional services enterprises who have frequent overseas trips for work and meetings to get vaccinated.

He called on various sectors and industries to encourage their employees to receive vaccination during the critical three-month period from now until the end of August, thereby restoring normality to society sooner rather than later. 

Enterprises and groups can call the hotline at 3904 1490 from Monday to Friday, from 9am to 6pm to arrange for the outreach vaccination service. 

The bureau is proactively in discussion with enterprises and groups from various sectors, including financial institutions, post-secondary institutions, public utilities and theme parks and the like on the feasibility of providing the service to them.