HONG KONG — Hong Kong has kicked off its coronavirus vaccination drive on Friday, as momentum builds for inoculation rollouts across the Asia-Pacific region.
Hong Kong said it aims to vaccinate all adults by the end of the year.
Similarly, South Korea started its inoculation campaign also Friday with a plan to inoculate 70 percent of its population within seven months.
Hong Kong and South Korea were among the first to experience new coronavirus outbreaks after the SARS-CoV-2 spread from central China early last year.
But both countries kept infections comparatively low thanks to strict quarantine measures for arrivals, widely adhered to social distancing measu…
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