Acting Director of Home Affairs officiates at presentation ceremony of community vaccination event for children organised by Kowloon City District Office (with photos)
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The Acting Director of Home Affairs, Miss Vega Wong, officiated at the presentation ceremony of a community vaccination event for children known as “I am a Little Anti-pandemic Hero” organised by the Kowloon City District Office held at the Hung Hom Community Hall today (March 6). She presented certificates to vaccinated children, including ethnic minority children, to acknowledge their acts for protecting themselves and those around them as well as minimising the risk of virus spread in the community through vaccination.
Miss Wong stated that the Home Affairs Department and 18 District Offices under its purview will continue to walk hand in hand with the public in the fight against the epidemic, by providing a variety of anti-epidemic support services to the community through different channels such as organising community vaccination activities in various districts for those in need of injection especially high-risk groups like children and the elderly, for gaining protection for themselves and the others through vaccines as soon as possible.
Apart from officiating at the ceritificate presentation ceremony, Miss Wong, accompanied by the District Officer (Kowloon City), Ms Alice Choi, talked to the parents who took their children to the event, the medical doctor volunteers responsible for vaccination as well as the volunteers who were there to maintain order for learning various situations encountered by them during anti-epidemic activities. She also thanked them for supporting the event.
The community vaccination event for children named “I am a Little Anti-pandemic Hero” was jointly organised by the Kowloon City District Office, the Faculty of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong with the support from the Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society Kowloon, the CUHK Medical Alumni Buddy Programme, the Union Hospital, the Youth Committee of the Hong Kong & Kowloon Chiu Chow Public Association and Lui Lee Sau Ying Charity Fund Limited. It offers effective protection for children by injecting COVID-19 vaccines for school kids free of charge.
Miss Wong thanked all sectors of the community for their staunch support for vaccination activities organised by individual district offices such that citizens of all ages, especially children and the elderly who are more vulnerable to serious infection, can be vaccinated as soon as possible to obtain the much needed proper protection for themselves and others under the severe epidemic situation.