8:30am-9:15am: Covid-19 updates

8:30am-9:15am: Prof Roberto Bruzzone, Co-Director, HKU-Pasteur Re-search Pole, School of Public Health, HKU

8:30am-9:00am: Dr Pan Pey-chyou, Chairman of the Hong Kong Medical and Health Care Staff General Union; Former Vice Chairman, Hong Kong Federa-tion of Trade Unions

9:00am-9:15am: Achim Czerny, Associate Professor, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

9:15am-9:30am: transitional housing

9:15am-9:30am: Dr Rita Li, Director of Sustainable Real Estate Research Center; Associate Professor of Department of Economics and Finance, Hong Kong Shue Yan University

On Tuesday's Backchat: Covid-19 updates; and transitional housing.

A new survey by the Society of Hospital Pharmacists suggests that nearly half of unvaccinated Hongkongers say they won’t be getting inoculated against the coronavirus. Of the more than 5,600 respondents to the online survey, 47 percent of those who'd not been vaccinated said they wouldn't be getting the jabs, while 27 percent were undecided. 

The results have come after Hong Kong reached its goal late last month of having 70 percent of the eligible population receive at least one Covid-19 shot. 

Meanwhile, another airline - Swiss International Air Lines - has suspended flights to Hong Kong over the strict quarantine regime in force here.

From 9:15am, we’re talking about transitional housing – is this a way to relieve housing problems?