Swire Properties Encourages Employee Vaccination and Sponsors Lucky Draw to Boost Hong Kong’s Vaccination Rate
In mid-2021, Swire Properties worked to boost the vaccination rate in Hong Kong in various ways. Before his promotion to Chair of the Swire Group, Guy Bradley took part in an online campaign spearheaded by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce to encourage businesses, employees and the general public to get vaccinated.
Swire Properties also put significant effort into ensuring that our employees received the COVID-19 vaccine when it became available. We arranged three health talk sessions for our employees to educate them about the vaccination and its effects and offered complimentary pre-vaccination medical assessments to ensure their physical suitability for the COVID-19 vaccine. In addition, most Hong Kong employees who received both vaccine doses were offered paid leave and a HKD2,000 shopping voucher to spend at our shopping malls.
A special virtual session was also arranged with a panel of specialist doctors from Medical Conscience, a medical NGO that advises society on medical and healthcare issues. The session covered the efficacy of the various COVID-19 vaccines, safety concerns, insights into the Delta variant as well as a question-and-answer session.
Swire Properties also sponsored the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce’s “Hong Kong We Can Do It!” lucky draw, which aimed to increase the city’s vaccination rate through various incentives. We gave away HKD5 million in shopping coupons for use at our shopping malls.