After more than a year, the world is still battling against COVID-19, prompting many to wonder when people-to-people exchanges will return to normal, when China will open its doors to the world, and to what extent vaccines and mutated variants will impact the resumption of international travels.
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China has fully mobilized its COVID-19vaccination efforts after overcoming a series of hurdles, with 100 million shots administered in five days last month.
As of Wednesday, China administered more than 700 million doses, with half of those doses given in May alone. The number represents about a third of shots distributed globally.
China received emergency approval from the World Health Organization (WHO) for its Sinopharm vaccine on May 7 - making it just one of six vaccines at the organization s disposal - but health officials had previously admitted that the vaccines developed by China were not highly effective.