Hefei city in East China's Anhui Province has started its emergency
vaccination project on Thursday, local media revealed on Friday, amid
sporadic outbreaks in China before the Spring Festival that includes
family reunions in February. Nearly 50 people including students
to study abroad, migrant workers and personnel employed in the
cold-chain food industry, were vaccinated against COVID-19 on Thursday
in Baohe district in Hefei, following the local government's efforts of a
month-long investigation into residents' willingness in communities to
vaccinate. Anhui's move came after cities in East China's Zhejiang, South China's Guangdong, Southwest China's Sichuan and Central China's Henan provinces all started emergency vaccinations earlier this winter. The
Hefei city-level government has bought a batch of Sinovac's inactivated
COVID-19 vaccines, offering it to residents for a vaccination fee of
200 yuan per injection and two injections per person, local media
reported. According to local media, Wuhu, another city in Anhui,
has also conducted an investigation into residents' willingness to
vaccinate against the coronavirus, and recommended key personnel to be
inoculated. These include medical, health and epidemic prevention
personnel, port quarantine and border inspection personnel, civil
service staff, and people who are going abroad on business. China
began emergency vaccinations against COVID-19 in July, and has
completed more than 1 million doses of the vaccine so far, with no
serious adverse reactions, government officials said at a press
conference held by the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the
State Council on December 19. With the conditional or officially
approved vaccine marketing and the increase of vaccine production,
China's vaccination project will be carried out in a comprehensive and
orderly manner for high-risk groups such as the elderly and the general
population, officials said. China recorded 14 new COVID-19 cases
on Thursday, including seven imported cases. There are 11 middle-risk
regions in the Chinese mainland as of Friday afternoon.
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