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A food delivery worker wearing a face mask prepares to place his customers orders at a collection point setup to help curb the spread of the coronavirus outside an office building in Beijing on Feb. 24, 2021. Credit:
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Countries across the globe are scrambling to vaccinate everyone. With 1.4 billion people, that’s a huge challenge for China. Their goal is to inoculate about 70% of its population which still hits the billion-dose range.
China is rolling out two of its own vaccines Sinopharm and Sinovac but it hasn’t been able to conduct trials on its own population because the coronavirus infection rates are so low.