New year, new outbreak: China rushes to vaccinate 50 million as holiday looms
by Helen Davidson in Taipei and Michael Standaert in from Science | The Guardian on (#5CVQN)
Drive to immunise 3.5% of the population in weeks comes ahead of the lunar new year festival and as three major cities are locked down
At a Shenzhen hospital, 21-year-old airport worker Wang Shuyue lines up to receive her second shot.
I feel it's safe because so many people around the country have taken the vaccine so there shouldn't be any major problems," she tells the Guardian. I think it should be effective otherwise there wouldn't be so many people taking it."
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