Chinese flock to Hong Kong to get private Covid booster shots

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Travel packages also advertised in Macau as interest grows in mRNA vaccines unavailable on mainland

later this month. However, there also appears to be a large contingent chasing the mRNA bivalent vaccines.

On Chinese social media platforms, C3Hong Kong Life, a travel service for mainlanders, advertised bookings from 8 January for people to travel to Hong Kong and get the shot for HK$1,680. Staff at one cross-border travel agency, xBorder, said they had facilitated “a lot” of people travelling to Macau – where entry restrictions were looser than Hong Kong – in the last quarter of 2022, and were getting a lot of interest from people wanting to go to Hong Kong.

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Co, the China-region distributor of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, is also promoting “go to Hong Kong, get the vaccination”. In December, the company’s vaccine was registered as a pharmaceutical product, widening availability in Hong Kong, and was granted approval for provision to visitors.a Chinese state-owned bank, China Citic Bank International, was offering new mainland customers a free mRNA shot if they made a deposit of HK$4m.

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