Beijing Claims to Have Fully Vaccinated Over 1 Billion People

Beijing Claims to Have Fully Vaccinated Over 1 Billion People
Residents queue to undergo nucleic acid tests for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Xiamen city, in China's eastern Fujian Province, on Sept. 14, 2021. STR/AFP
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China announced on Thursday that it has fully vaccinated more than 1 billion people against COVID-19—over 70 percent of the entire population.

Ten months ago, the Chinese Communist Party rolled out the immunization campaign to those aged 12 and older. Nearly 2.2 billion vaccine doses had been administered to date, National Health Commission spokesperson Mi Feng said at a news conference on Sept. 16.

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