China forces pace of vaccinations with persuasion … and some cash
by Vincent Ni from on (#5JEFY)
Two months ago, few had been inoculated. Now hundreds of millions have, after health warnings - and gifts
Early in March, when the Covid vaccination rate in the UK had reached 30% of the population, China's top respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan revealed in a webinar that the figure in China was barely 3.56%.
The low vaccination rate was worrying the country's leaders, as new variants continued to emerge across the world. By the end of February, only slightly more than 52m doses of Covid vaccines had been administered in China - a country with more than 1.4 billion people.
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