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Beijing moves forward with COVID-19 vaccination for children aged 3-11

China has begun vaccinating more children. The latest age group expansion is between the ages of 3-11, on Thursday local time. Beijing, the Chinese capital, has begun distributing vaccines to children for the first time. by announcing to inform children who have been infected with COVID before You can only be vaccinated 6 months after infection. The vaccines that are injected to children It is a vaccine from Sinofarm and Sinovac and requires a gap of 3 weeks between the first and second doses.

With the latest data as of Wednesday (Oct. 27), Beijing has a population of 20.47 million who have received full doses of the vaccine, while 42.5 million doses have been used across the city. infected with covid-19 25 in Beijing, and two others are asymptomatic patients.

Chinese authorities have started piloting vaccinations for children aged 3-11 across the country since October 26. It started in Hubei, Hunan, Hainan and Zhejiang provinces, followed by Fujian and Anhui provinces until it reached the capital city of Beijing. Amid the outbreak that has begun to increase in many cities, lockdowns have to be imposed again.