07/16/2021 | News release | Distributed by Public on 07/15/2021 19:24
Vaccination push extends to teenagers
Some local governments in China are planning to administer COVID-19 vaccines to teenagers as the country pushes ahead with its mass immunization drive, with over 1.4 billion doses already administered.
The health commission in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region said on July 13 that it will focus on vaccinating those aged 12 to 17 and the elderly in the second half of this year.
'All people aged 12 and above who do not have contraindications to COVID-19 vaccines should get vaccines,' it said in a notice.
The region started to give vaccines to those aged 15 to 17 this month, and will start inoculating those aged 12 to 14 next month. It aims to fully immunize those aged 12 to 17 by the end of October, the commission said.