COVID-19: China aims to vaccinate 50 million as Lunar New Year celebrations loom large

With festivities of Lunar New Year looming large over China, country’s ministration is rushing to vaccinate as many as 50 million people. Asian giant, where pandemic allegedly began, reported a fresh fatality earlier this week, after eight months of successful recovery. Meanwhile, new outbreak in country’s rastern region- Manchuria- has sparked concerns pushing nearly 23 million of its population into strict lockdown.

Xi Jinping ministration has approved a locally manufactured vaccine by Sivac for mass iculation. In dendum, it has also given emergency use authorization to several or vaccine jabs for targeted vaccination of specific groups. With three of major cities lockdown, health authorities w aim to iculate 3.5 per cent of its total residents before New Year commences on February 11 and people start crisscrossing nation to visit friends and family.

Most ambitious vaccination drive

In what is being dubbed as one of most ambitious vaccination programme in world, Chinese vaccination drive involves more than 25,300 sites across a reported 75 cities and rural vills, delivering vaccines in two doses about 21 days apart. First anunced in December 2020, country aims to provides both shots, absolutely free of cost. As per a report by Guardian, vaccination clinics have received eir emergency-approved Sivac vaccine (for key workers) or conditionally approved Sipharm vaccine (for wider population).

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According to a recent report by John Hopkins University, China has reported 97,448 cases and 4,796 fatalities till w. With new death being reported, people have flocked to Weibo, which is a Twitter-like platform operated in China, to express ir reaction using ‘New Virus death in Hebei’. "I haven't seen words 'virusdeath' in so long, it's a bit shocking! I hope epidemic can pass soon," one user wrote. Meanwhile, authorities in capital city of Beijing have begun mass testing with Associated Press reporting hundreds of citizens lining up in freezing temperatures to get tested.  

Meanwhile, experts set by World Health Organization (WHO) finally landed in Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday, January 14. team is w tasked with probing into origins of lethal coronavirus infection that has killed nearly two billion people across globe.

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