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Ineffective messaging a factor in low vaccine take-up

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Hong Kong health experts are not hopeful that 70 per cent of the city's population will be inoculated before September, or that borders will fully reopen by the end of the year.

This is despite having an ample supply of Covid-19 vaccines.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on May 12, 2021, with the headline Ineffective messaging a factor in low vaccine take-up. Subscribe