China News Service, Beijing, May 29 (Hao Lingyu and Li Chun) Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who is participating in the academician meeting of the two academies, pointed out in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com on the evening of the 28th that by the end of this year, China's new crown virus vaccine coverage rate will reach 80%, the current vaccine production capacity still needs to be strengthened.
Recently, there have been sporadic cases of the epidemic in mainland China, and the willingness to vaccination has also increased.
Zhong Nanshan said that on the one hand, there is a strong domestic demand for the new crown vaccine. On the other hand, the World Health Organization's vaccine demand is also urgent. Many countries hope that China can provide the vaccine.
China's new coronavirus vaccine production capacity still needs to be strengthened.
According to data released by the National Health Commission of China, as of May 27, the cumulative number of doses of the new crown vaccine in mainland China has exceeded 580 million.
When can a herd immunity barrier be established?
Zhong Nanshan said that based on the vaccine protection rate reaching 70%, China's new crown vaccine coverage rate needs to reach nearly 80% before it is possible to form herd immunity.
"As far as I know, at the beginning of July, the country should reach (coverage rate) 40%, and 80% by the end of this year." Zhong Nanshan told a reporter from China News Agency.
The international community has widely noticed that in the face of the global public health crisis of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the formation of herd immunity in a certain country is not enough to truly respond to the challenges posed by the epidemic, and it must rely on international cooperation to fight the epidemic.
However, we still need to realize that the current global joint mechanism for responding to public health incidents is not sound enough.
Taking the distribution of the new crown vaccine as an example, the global uneven distribution has aroused continuous attention from all parties.
Zhong Nanshan said that because of this, the independent working committee of the World Health Organization he participated in strongly hopes to establish a committee on international health crises, with government leadership, economics and health experts, and government economics and health officials to jointly organize .
"It (the committee) can make decisions and formulate some global corresponding policies, just like global policies on climate change, temperature, and air pollution, and it can also have the right to allocate sufficient funds to support it." Zhong Nanshan pointed out: " Only in this way can we further strengthen our ability to respond to this type of public health emergencies." (End)