{"id":107552,"date":"2021-06-20T22:07:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T14:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=428889"},"modified":"2021-06-20T22:07:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T14:07:27","slug":"covid-china-administers-a-billion-vaccine-doses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2021\/06\/20\/covid-china-administers-a-billion-vaccine-doses\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid: China administers a billion vaccine doses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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June 20, 2021 Residents in Foshan in southern China wait to receive their second vaccine doses
\nChina has administered more than a billion Covid vaccine doses, officials say \u00e2\u0080\u0093 more than a third of all vaccine doses given globally.
\nThe country\u00e2\u0080\u0099s vaccination drive began slowly after authorities successfully suppressed virus cases.
\nBut incentives such as free eggs and concern over an outbreak of the Delta variant have seen jabs accelerate.
\nChinese authorities aim to have fully vaccinated 40% of the country\u00e2\u0080\u0099s 1.4 billion population by July.
\nPeople in China are being offered domestically made Chinese vaccines, including the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines. Both require two doses.
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\nAfter lockdowns and mass testing prevented the virus from circulating, many Chinese felt little need to get vaccinated. Previous vaccine scandals had also left some people wary.
\nHowever the pace of vaccinations has rapidly increased and China\u00e2\u0080\u0099s National Health Commission said it had taken just five days to administer the latest 100 million doses.
\nAn outbreak of the Delta variant in the southern province of Guangdong has also convinced some Chinese to be vaccinated.
\nRural residents wait to receive a second vaccine dose in the central province of Anhui
\nDoctors in the southern city of Guangzhou told the bioreports that symptoms from the new variant appeared to be different and more dangerous than those linked to the initial form of the virus that began spreading in the city of Wuhan at the end of 2019.
\nThe newspaper quoted a resident of Shenzhen, a city near Guangzhou, who said she had not wanted to be vaccinated because of possible side effects but had now changed her mind.
\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI want to get vaccinated, but it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s really hard to make an appointment now,\u00e2\u0080\u009d the 27-year-old said, adding that incentives such as free eggs or free rides to vaccination centres were no longer being offered.
\nOther regions have been offering a range of modest incentives. The central province of Anhui has also been offering people free eggs while some in Beijing have received shopping vouchers.
\nThe National Health Commission says it aims to have fully vaccinated 70% of the population by the end of the year.
\nThree Chinese vaccines have been authorised for emergency use within the country. Two \u00e2\u0080\u0093 the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines \u00e2\u0080\u0093 have been approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO).
\nThey are both already in use in a range of other countries, including the Philippines, Chile, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and Turkey.
\nThe WHO said the Sinopharm vaccine\u00e2\u0080\u0099s efficacy for symptomatic and hospitalised cases of Covid-19 was estimated to be 79%.
\nIt said the Sinovac vaccine prevented symptomatic disease in 51% of those vaccinated and prevented severe symptoms and hospitalisation in 100% of samples.
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June 20, 2021 Residents in Foshan in southern China wait to receive their second vaccine doses
\nChina has administered more than a billion Covid vaccine doses, officials say \u00e2\u0080\u0093 more than a third of all vaccine doses given globally.
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