China tops 1 billion full vaccination target

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China tops 1 billion full vaccination target but Delta challenges herd immunity COVID19

More than 1.01 billion people have been fully inoculated with Covid-19 vaccines in China, but the highly transmissible Delta variant is still challenging the country's target to build herd immunity.

"We rank the top in the world in terms of total number of doses and number of people covered, and have one of the highest vaccination rates," Lei said. The figures mean that 72 per cent of China's 1.4 billion people are fully vaccinated, reaching a target originally set when China started the national vaccination campaign in December.

Wang Huaqing, chief immunization expert at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said the vaccination of more than 1 billion people laid the foundation for controlling the epidemic, but Delta was challenging the herd immunity goal. Wang said China needed to take more action to meet the challenge, including strengthening surveillance of the virus and the disease, and reinforcing evaluations of vaccine efficacy. The immunization strategy against Covid-19 needed to be improved and "better" vaccines need to be developed to prevent morbidity.The Chinese health authorities aimed to have 1.1 billion people vaccinated by the end of October.

 

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