Chinese Mainlanders Can Book Omicron-Specific mRNA Shot in Hong Kong

What’s new: Chinese mainland residents will soon be able to get inoculation with BioNTech’s omicron specific messenger RNA Covid vaccine in Hong Kong as quarantine-free travel across the border is set to resume Sunday.

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., the Chinese marketing partner of Germany’s BioNTech, said Friday that it will start supplying the bivalent Covid shot to the privately run health-care system in Hong Kong. The shot targets the omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.