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Hong Kong will begin offering Covid-19 vaccines for children over the age of five, as the city-state suspends classes in kindergartens and primary schools, its chief executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday.

Lam, who was speaking at a weekly press briefing, said kindergartens and primary schools must stop face-to-face classes by Friday at the latest and suspend classes until after the Lunar New Year period at the start of February.

Stopping in-person classes is the hardest decision for me to make. On one hand, stopping classes will protect them from infections, but on the other hand it will be to the detriment of their physical and psychological wellbeing.”

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Source: The Guardian