8:30am-9:30am: Covid-19 updates

8:30am-9:15am: Benjamin Cowling, Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, HKU

8:30am-9:00am: Lau Yu-lung, Chair Professor of Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, HKU; Chairman of the Scientific Committee on Vac-cine Preventable Disease

9:15am-9:30am: Thomas Chan Tung-fung, Chair, Hong Kong Union of Employment Agencies


On Tuesday's Backchat, more Covid-19 updates. 
The government’s advisers agreed to recommend lowering the age limit for the Siinovac vaccine to children as young as three years old.
A government statement said the advisers had studied information provided by Sinovac, as well as data collected and the mainland and from clinical trials in countries such as South Africa and Chile. For the BioNTech vaccine, it said the experts should seek more information from its mainland supplier, Fosun Pharmaceutical.
The statement added that the Secretary of Health would make a decision on the matter as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, a new quarantine hotel for foreign domestic helpers will be available from next month.