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Hong Kong enters winter peak flu season week earlier than last year with health officials urging elderly and children to get shots

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Influenza activity is expected to increase in the coming weeks as the city has entered the winter peak flu season, the health authorities have warned. Dr Wong Ka-hing, controller of the Centre for Health Protection, announced the start of the winter influenza season on Wednesday, around a week earlier than last year. According to Wong, 960,000 doses of seasonal flu vaccine were administered by December 23, a more than 50 per cent increase compared with the same period last year. Almost 40 per...

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