China Starts Vaccinating Children as Young as 3 Amid New Surge of COVID-19 Cases

China Starts Vaccinating Children as Young as 3 Amid New Surge of COVID-19 Cases
A child looking on as a woman receives the China National Biotec Group (CNBG) Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine in Nantong, in China's eastern Jiangsu Province, on July 5, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Eva Fu
Eva Fu
Reporter
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Children as young as 3 years old will start receiving vaccine doses in China as the country battles what Beijing has described as “rapidly developing” local COVID-19 clusters.

City and provincial authorities in at least seven provinces have issued notices in recent days requiring children between 3 and 11 years of age to be inoculated, widening China’s vaccination campaign as the regime looks to lock down cities and quarantine en masse those suspected of carrying the virus.

Eva Fu
Eva Fu
Reporter
Eva Fu is an award-winning, New York-based journalist for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]
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