Shanghai's focus shifts to vaccination of elderly as new Covid-19 cases decline

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SHANGHAI - The coronavirus-hit city of Shanghai is making more resources available to improve vaccination rates among the elderly asand it looks for a way out of four weeks of stringent lockdown rest

rictions.

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 Mr 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 justifiedresponse by pointing out that thousands of people could still die if it spreads into its vulnerable elderly population.

 

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