Children as young as three will be vaccinated against corona in China, according to a report in Time magazine.
While 76% of the country's population is fully vaccinated, the authorities have a zero tolerance policy towards any outbreak of the virus.
Local authorities in at least five districts have announced in recent days that children aged 11-3 will be asked to be vaccinated.
The expansion of the vaccination campaign comes in light of China's attempts to ward off small outbreaks of the corona virus.
Gansu, a northwestern province heavily dependent on tourism, has closed all of its tourist sites in the past two months, after new cases of infection were found there.
The National Health Organization reported that 35 people had been diagnosed with the virus during the past 24 hours, four of them in Gensu.
19 more cases of infection have been found in the Inner Mongolia region, and more cases have also been diagnosed across the country.
According to the AP news agency, China in this move is becoming one of the few countries in the world that have started vaccinating such young children against the virus.
Cuba, for example, has embarked on an immunization campaign for two-year-olds.
The U.S. and many European countries allow vaccinations from age 12, and the U.S. is rapidly advancing toward the opening of vaccines for ages 5 to 11.
