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With over 1 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines administered, reopening still not on the cards for China
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China is on track to meet its target of inoculating 80 per cent of the population by the end of 2021.
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BEIJING - China announced last weekend that it has dispensed one billion doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, about a third of the total vaccines administered worldwide.
After a somewhat sluggish start last December, the authorities 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.
