People line up at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mobile vaccination unit in Beijing, China, April 14, 2021. (File photo by=REUTERS/Thomas Peter) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] BEIJING: China's capital Beijing has fully vaccinated nearly 91 percent of its adult residents against COVID-19, data from the municipal government showed, as the country expands its nationwide vaccination efforts, Reuters reported.
Some 17.7 million people, or 90.8 percent of adult residents in Beijing, had been inoculated as of Jul 21, city authorities said on Thursday (Jul 22) via social media. That accounts for roughly 80.8 percent of its total population of 21.9 million. Full vaccinations of adults in other large Chinese cities have also made significant headway, with Shanghai and Wuhan exceeding rates of 80 percent and 77 percent respectively, local authorities said. China said on Thursday it has administered 1.49 billion doses of COVID-19 shots as of Jul 21 but it does not disclose nationwide data on how many people have been fully vaccinated.
The vaccination pace in China slowed to about 11.8 million doses per day on average in July, compared with an average of nearly 20 million in June, while vaccination rates in some provinces lagged behind those seen in major cities. China is expected to vaccinate at least 70 percent of target groups by the end of this year, Zeng Yixin, vice head of the National Health Commission, told the official Xinhua news agency last month, without giving details of the groups.