Secretary for the Civil Service Ingrid Yeung today attended the Wan Chai District Student Vaccination Day at SKH St James' Primary School to encourage school children and parents to receive COVID-19 vaccination together.

Around 170 people were expected to get vaccinated through today's event.

Mrs Yeung said the vaccination day enables the district's school children and their family members to get vaccinated together and schools can further build up their protective barriers.

“This is a triple-win situation for the schools, parents and students, and it will be safer for students to get vaccinated before taking part in school activities. I encourage more districts to organise similar vaccination events for school children.”

She added that to promote COVID-19 vaccination of young children and students, the Government has lowered the threshold for the school outreach COVID-19 vaccination service to 10 people.

Since September, about 60 schools have been lined up to arrange vaccination of their students by group bookings. About 155 school outreach events have been organised at primary schools and kindergartens.

Mrs Yeung pointed out that currently, the third-dose vaccination rate of people aged 12 to 19 is about 67%.

Although the epidemic situation has subsided as compared with August, she reminded parents to arrange for their children to receive the appropriate number of vaccine doses on time in order to be well-prepared before winter approaches.

In addition, the Government is rolling out a series of publicity and education activities, including organising over 20 parent-child workshops at campuses from late September to November, and displaying explanatory videos on the COVID-19 virus and vaccines by paediatricians on parenting websites.