China's new crown vaccination speeds up over 500 million doses of vaccination, "visible to the naked eye"

(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) China's new crown vaccination is "visible to the naked eye" over 500 million doses of vaccination

　　China News Service, Beijing, May 24 (Reporter Li Chun) According to the data released by the National Health Commission of China on the 24th, as of May 23, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have reported cumulative inoculations with the new crown virus The vaccine has been administered 51.858 million doses.

The number of inoculations of the new crown vaccine in mainland China exceeded 500 million doses, and it was only 7 days apart according to the previous breakthrough of the “400 million mark”.

On May 24, in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, citizens were vaccinated at the new crown vaccination site of the Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Jimin

　　Combining data shows that the number of vaccinations against the new coronavirus in Mainland China exceeded 100 million doses on March 27, 200 million doses on April 21, 300 million doses on May 7 and 400 million doses on May 16. The interval is 25 days, 16 days, and 9 days.

After another 7 days this time, the new crown vaccination speed was "visible to the naked eye."

　　According to figures released by the National Health Commission, a reporter from China News Agency has calculated that since the 13th of this month, the daily vaccination of the new coronavirus vaccine in mainland China has been higher than 12 million doses, and on May 20 it reached 17.187 million doses.

This should be the highest amount of vaccination in a single day in mainland China since the Chinese government launched the national “daily report” mechanism for COVID-19 vaccination on March 24.

　　Shao Yiming, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently told the media that the time required for each additional 100 million doses of vaccination has been shortening, on the one hand because of the increase in vaccine production capacity, on the other hand, the speed of vaccination is also increasing.

Recently, a small number of local infections have occurred in some areas, and the people's willingness to vaccinate has increased.

　　According to Wang Huaqing, chief expert of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's immunization program, China is currently using 7 new coronavirus vaccines, including 3 inactivated vaccines and 1 adenovirus vaccine approved for conditional marketing, and 3 vaccines approved for emergency use. , Namely 1 protein subunit vaccine and 2 inactivated vaccines.

　　Shao Yiming pointed out that by the middle of this year, China's vaccine production capacity will basically reach its peak, and the vaccine supply will increase significantly in the second half of the year.

With sufficient vaccines and a high vaccination rate, with more than half a year left, China can fully realize the establishment of a herd immune barrier.

　　China is not only accelerating the establishment of domestic immune barriers, but also continuously contributing to global vaccination.

China has supplied 300 million doses of vaccines to the world, and has supported domestic vaccine companies in technology transfer and cooperative production to developing countries.

China also announced its support for the intellectual property rights exemption for the new crown pneumonia vaccine, and it also supports the World Trade Organization and other international institutions to make an early decision on this.

　　China is also actively contributing its wisdom and strength to the fair distribution of vaccines.

The WHO has included a Chinese vaccine on the emergency use list to help alleviate the global vaccine shortage and improve vaccine accessibility.

China also proposes the establishment of an international forum for vaccine cooperation, where vaccine production and development countries, companies, and stakeholders will discuss how to promote a fair and reasonable distribution of global vaccines.

　　At the same time, the mutation of the new coronavirus is generally accelerating.

According to the data reported by the WHO, the frequency of virus mutation has gradually increased from 0.1‰ to 1.3‰, and the number of mutant strains discovered is also increasing, and the emergence of new mutant strains is not ruled out.

　　Earlier in a press conference, Shao Yiming pointed out that studies have shown that the inactivated vaccine produced in China still has a protective effect on the South African variant, the British variant, and the Brazilian variant.

China's existing vaccines can also deal with Indian variants.

　　Some Chinese media reported that preliminary research results of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that China's existing vaccines can deal with foreign variants.

Accelerated release of national vaccine production capacity can meet the requirements of more than 20 million doses per day.

Some people believe that vaccination against the new coronavirus is no longer a “multiple choice question”, but a “must-answer question”.

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