sbs2716g

if you have read the news and you would know that there will be stages n right now they are trying to increase their vaccination rate first before they can reach the stage of opening up.

I did not say that they will open up immediately.

freed0m

Australia does not have a clear vaccination path. AZ vaccine is clearly a failure. I am still not sure what’s the role of AZ vaccine to the younger people. Can they take or not? Will the government indemnify the risk of AZ vaccine to younger people. And AZ vaccine is the foundation of its strategy.

Japan would be an opposite of Australia. It quickly changed its strategy away from AZ and have enough Pfizer on order to vaccinate enough this year. It has donated its AZ vaccine to Taiwan and others.

percysmith

Its vaccination rate is nothing to write home about. Its legal system offers little protection to manufacturers.

freed0m

At least Japan will receive almost 200 million Pfizer by fall.

Will Australia continue to depend on AstraZeneca? I remember I read Pfizer Australia orders will be delivered later this year.

Situation can change fast. People hesitating to vaccinate may change their mind very fast given the rise of cases of new variants. Always easier to have ready supply.

brunos

Japan changed its strategy, but itt has reached a point where Pfizer supply is currently insufficient and slows vaccination.

freed0m

some report says Japan should have received 100 million doses of Pfizer and another 70 million between now and September.

So far, Japan has only administered less than 50 million doses.

Highly unlikely that the wastage is that high.

Sozee

Any updates regarding the actual SIN-HKG travel bubble corridor?

apsrinomecker

A update is suppoed to be provided by the two governments in "early July".... though given the different views on how to live with COVID, I think the bubble (or whaterver you call it) is dead

sbs2716g

Two of the LegCo member have ask HKG to cancel so call bubble or corridor after SIN change their policy. They claim that it is not safe to do so. So based on this, I think HKG can just close off their border n just open up with Macau n China will do.



Recently one HK resident took a TR flight from HKG (27/6) and transit for few hours at changi n travel via TR 18 (28/6). This guy was tested positive on 29/6 in MEL. But it seem like one of the above LegCo member n another expert have claim that this guy caught the virus during transit at Changi. Seem like they are trying to find scapegoat. So a person who transit at changi for 6-7hours can immediately tested positive upon arrival at MEL if he really caught the virus at changi.

royng

China feeling so victorious in eliminating the virus from its soil (provided that their figures are true) is reluctant to accept the worldwide reality that COVID is not going away despite the reported high vaccination rate.

HK is caught in a dilemma: either open to the world (and not able to open border with Macau or mainland), or follow mainland China's standard in dealing with outsiders entering Chinese soil (long compulsory quarantine period)...

freed0m

This alone does not work very well, except in China.

Both Vietnam and Taiwan have failed miserably and Australia and New Zealand don't fare much better, either.

Pascal Liu

Well not really for Taiwan tho, everything seems surprisingly under controlled now. The case surge in early May actually helped Taiwan in a way, no one was keen on getting vaccinated before then : (

However, Vietnam is indeed stuck in a very tricky position.

freed0m

Taiwan is better in international standard now, but certainly not up to mainland standard.

If Hong Kong was anywhere like where Taiwan was in the last 2,3 months, China and Macau would have been closed to it anyway. So no difference from now.

apsrinomecker

news is saying Singapore may not allow the 1 million Hong Kong people vaccinated with Sinovac to join the bubble/corridor. politically I think it is very hard for China (incl Hong Kong) to accept and that's why those LegCo members are saying might as well give it up

freed0m

That rumor has no credibility. Sinovac is approved by WHO and used in Singapore through special access, too, though not officially endorsed by the government.

The most I see is that Singapore is going to require PCR tests for those vaccinated with vaccine other than Pfizer BioNTech or Moderna.