Prognosis
China Has Fully Vaccinated More Than 1 Billion People
- World’s most populous nation doesn’t plan to ease restrictions
- More than one-in-three shots given globally were in China
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China has fully vaccinated more than 1 billion people against Covid-19 -- over 70% of its total population -- powering ahead of the U.S. and Europe despite having no immediate plans to ease some of the strictest pandemic measures in the world.
A total of 2.16 billion doses have been given in China as of Sept. 15, Mi Feng, a spokesperson at the National Health Commission, told reporters in Beijing on Thursday, fully inoculating more than 1.01 billion people.