By the end of February, China has injected 5.25 crore doses of vaccine to the people. Government health experts have admitted that the pace of vaccination is slower here than in many countries, including the US.
China Aims to Vaccinate 70 to 80 Percent Population: The world has not been able to get rid of the Coronavirus Pandemic even after more than a year. Of course, the process of Vaccination in World has started in most countries but it will still take more time for the situation to become normal. At the same time, the situation has become quite normal in China, from where the virus started spreading. Now China has said that by the end of this year or by the middle of 2022, 70-80 percent of its population has targeted to apply Coronavirus Vaccine to protect them from corona virus infection.
The head of the country’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said this on Saturday. CDC chief Gao Fu has told Chinese government broadcaster CGTN that with the approval of four vaccines, China will vaccinate 90 million to one billion people. He said, “We hope that China can take the lead in securing community immunity in the world.” Community immunity is achieved when the immune system develops after vaccination or infection in most people to prevent the uncontrolled spread of infectious disease such as COVID 19.
Vaccination speed slowed in China
By the end of February, China has injected 5.25 crore doses of vaccine to the people. However, government health experts have acknowledged that the pace of vaccination in China is slow compared to many countries including the US (Vaccination in US). China has promised to deliver the vaccine to other countries, ten times more than the distribution of the vaccine domestically. Although Emergency Vaccination work has been going on in China since last summer, it has been slow to announce whether it has any plans to gain community immunity.
17 Vaccine in Clinical Trial
Currently, 17 vaccines of COVID-19 are in China for clinical trials. It has approved four indigenous vaccines but none of them have released final stage test data. Earlier on Friday, China announced that it would waive the COVID-19 test and health form for people coming from Hong Kong provided they had the Chinese vaccine.
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