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China has already administered more than 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine

2021-06-26T07:01:01.688Z


The National Health Commission of China (NHC) said a total of 1,010,489,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered as of Saturday.


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China has administered more than 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine, a staggering milestone that comes as the country launches an unparalleled inoculation campaign.

The National Health Commission of China (NHC) said a total of 1,010,489,000 doses had been administered as of Saturday, according to a statement.

Those doses represent almost 40% of the 2.5 billion doses administered globally.

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The NHC said 100 million doses were administered in the past five days including Saturday, according to state media Xinhua.

The 1 billion number is all the more remarkable given that China's vaccination plan got off to a choppy start.

China barely reached its first million doses administered on March 27, two weeks behind the US But the pace picked up significantly in May, with more than 500 million doses administered in the past month, according to NHC data.

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"It took China 25 days to go from 100 million doses to 200 million doses, 16 days to go from 200 million to 300 million and six days from 800 million to 900 million," Xinhua reported.

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Beijing has successfully contained the virus, but several recent local outbreaks, including Anhui provinces in the north and Liaoning and Guangdong in the south, have fueled fears of infections, prompting a rush to get vaccinated in the affected regions.

China has also started vaccinating people under the age of 18, and adolescents are eligible to receive the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines.

For those who are still reluctant, China has a powerful tool in its arsenal: a one-party system omnipresent in scope and forceful in action, and an expanding bureaucracy that can mobilize quickly.

Beijing aims to vaccinate at least 70% of eligible people by the end of the year, Xinhua reported, citing NHC deputy director Zeng Yixin.

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About 1.4 billion people live in China.

Because of this, the rate of doses administered in the country per 100 people still lags behind nations like the United States and Great Britain.

But if its inoculation campaign keeps pace now, Beijing will catch up quickly.

CNN's Angus Watson contributed to this report.

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Source: cnnespanol

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