Beijing vaccination rate tops 80% as China nears 1 billion shots

Beijing has fully vaccinated more than 80% of its adult residents, as the Chinese capital leads other global hubs in the race for herd immunity against Covid-19.

The city has given out a total of 33.4 million Covid vaccine doses since China kicked off its campaign to vaccinate its more than 1.4 billion people in December, according to state-run newspaper the Beijing Daily. Some 15.6 million of the city’s residents had been fully vaccinated as of Wednesday, accounting for 72.4% of its total population. Other major centers are still working to reach those levels. New York City has inoculated 46.8% of its population, London has reached 34.8% and 34.9% have had both doses in Singapore, according to Bloomberg’s Vaccine Tracker.