Several areas in China will start vaccinating teenagers this month against COVID-19, state media and local authorities said, as the country steps up its inoculation campaign.
China, which has managed to rein in domestic infections, has administered 1.4 billion vaccine doses, or two-fifths of the global total of 3.47 billion doses.
By the end of October, authorities there aim to have fully vaccinated all eligible in the age group of 12 to 17.and the other produced by a Beijing firm affiliated with Sinopharm, for those aged between three and 17.
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