Coronavirus | Vaccinations in China cross 100 million doses
The Hindu
The country recorded a new daily high of 6.12 million vaccines administered on Friday.
China has administered 102.4 million doses of its home-developed COVID-19 vaccines as of Saturday, the country's National Health Commission (NHC) has said. China crossed the 100 million-landmark amid a stepped up campaign at home, which reached a new daily high of 6.12 million vaccines administered on Friday. Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the NHC's disease control bureau, said on Sunday that the plan "focuses on key groups, including people who are in large or mid-sized cities, port cities or border areas, state-owned enterprise staff, college students and lecturers, and supermarket staff”, the Communist Party-run Global Times newspaper quoted him as saying.
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