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Asian Insider: Coronavirus Vaccines & vaccinations
China has administered over a billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines - what next?
As inoculation goes on, concerns remain over efficacy of shots, reopening of borders
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People receiving Covid-19 vaccine shots on Monday at a vaccination site in Guangzhou city, in China's Guangdong province. On Monday alone, 20 million people in China got their jabs.
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China announced last weekend that it had dispensed one billion doses of coronavirus vaccines, about a third of the total number of doses administered worldwide.
After a somewhat sluggish start last December, the authorities in China have exponentially ramped up its vaccination programme, rolling it out nationwide and making it available to almost everyone - including children above the age of three, in special cases.
