SHANGHAI, April 28 — The Covid-hit city of Shanghai is making more resources available to improve vaccination rates among the elderly as daily case numbers decline and it looks for a way out of four weeks of stringent lockdown restrictions.
With the outbreak still at a critical stage, every district in Shanghai is now coordinating “prevention and control” work with a vaccination drive focusing on elderly people, said Zhao Dandan, the deputy director of the municipal health commission. Though the more infectious Omicron variant is less virulent than its predecessors, Chinese medical experts have justified the country’s heavy-handed “dynamic zero” response by pointing out that thousands of people could still die if it spreads into its vulnerable elderly population.
Zhao told the briefing that 3.6 million residents aged 60 or over had received a full vaccination so far, amounting to 62 per cent of the city’s total population in that age bracket. He said 38 per cent of the over sixties had also received a booster jab.
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