The vaccination programme will be expanded to include people who worked in the transport and service industries and at wet markets, so as to create an “immunity barrier”.
China has been administering Covid-19 vaccine candidates to selected groups of workers, including medical staff and border inspection officials, for more than a month, a senior health official said on Sunday.
Get the latest insights and analysis from our Global Impact newsletter on the big stories originating in China. Zheng did not say how many people had been given jabs, but said the next step was to extend the scheme to many more people before the onset of autumn and winter and a possible spike in infections.
Peru and Morocco to start phase 3 trials of two Chinese vaccine hopefulsYang Xiaoming, chairman of CNBG, said 20,000 people had taken part in the overseas trials and the preliminary results were positive. The CanSino product was developed in cooperation with the Academy of Military Medical Sciences and in June was approved for use among military personnel.
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