Guangdong's new crown vaccination exceeds 160 million doses and the full vaccination coverage rate exceeds 55%

(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Guangdong New Coronary Vaccination Breaks 160 million doses and the full vaccination coverage rate exceeds 55%

　　China News Service, Guangzhou, August 1 (Reporter Cai Minjie) The Guangdong Provincial Health Commission announced on the evening of August 1 that as of 24:00 on July 31, Guangdong had received 160.7033 million doses of new crown virus vaccine, totaling 70,272,700. Complete the entire vaccination.

Based on the 126 million permanent residents of Guangdong Province, the first dose coverage rate of the entire population was 72.70%, and the entire vaccination coverage rate was 55.77%.

　　Among them, the population of 18 to 59 years old in Guangdong Province has been vaccinated with a total of 150,574,400 doses, with a full vaccination coverage rate of 82.79%; people aged 60 and above have been vaccinated with a cumulative vaccination of 7,210,900 doses, with the first dose coverage rate being 36.44%, and full vaccination coverage The rate was 9.85%; the population of 15 to 17 years of age was vaccinated with a total of 2,790,900 doses, and the cumulative first dose was 2,790,800. The coverage rate of the first dose was 76.06%.

　　Recently, many places in China have reported local new crown pneumonia epidemics. The Epidemic Prevention and Control Team of the Guangdong Provincial New Crown Pneumonia Prevention and Control Command Office issued an emergency call on August 1 to call on the people of the province to reduce inter-provincial mobility and gathering activities, and do not leave the province if necessary. Not in the high-risk areas.

Those who return to Guangdong from other provinces, especially in high-risk areas, should immediately report to their units, communities (villages) where they live, and local disease control agencies, report their health conditions, and cooperate with prevention and control measures.

　　Vaccines are a powerful weapon to deal with the epidemic.

On July 31, Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, delivered a speech on "The Current Situation and Judgment of the New Crown Epidemic" in Guangzhou. He believed that this wave of local epidemics should be highly valued and that it might be controlled within half a month.

In addition, Zhong Nanshan also released the latest research results, proving that the Chinese vaccine still has a protective effect on the Delta strain, and 83.3% of people need to be vaccinated before it is possible to establish herd immunity.

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