China has vaccinated more than one billion people against the corona virus, making up 71 percent of its population.
According to the French news agency AFP, the first case of corona virus was reported in China, after which China soon overcame the epidemic within its own country.
However, with new cases in the southeast, China is trying to vaccinate its entire population.
"As of September 15, 2.16 billion people have been vaccinated," National Health Commission spokesman Mei Feng told a news briefing on Thursday.
Last month, Chinese officials said 890 million people in China had received two billion doses of the vaccine.
The government has not spoken publicly about its goal of vaccinating, but epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan said last month that 80 percent of the country's population would be vaccinated by the end of this year.
China's southeastern province of Fujian is currently battling the delta virus, which has infected 200 people, including dozens of school-age children.
On Thursday, China reported 49 cases locally, most of them in Fujian.
Authorities say the suspect in the new cluster cases is a man from Singapore who arrived in Putian City after 14 days of quarantine, but began to show symptoms, but initially tested negative for corona.
The man's 12-year-old son and one of his classmates first became infected after the school reopened.
Vaccination of 12- to 17-year-olds began in July (Photo Reuters)
According to officials, the virus then spread to other classes and infected more than 36 children.
Vaccination of the 12- to 17-year-old population began in July, but not many were vaccinated.
Authorities have closed schools ahead of National Day on October 1, including targeted lockdowns, travel restrictions and large-scale testing to control the epidemic.
Zhong Nanshan had said that the Chinese vaccine is 60% effective against Delta and the booster shot increases antibodies. China is developing a vaccine against the Delta virus locally.
It may be recalled that former US President Donald Trump had sharply criticized China for initiating the corona virus.
The corona virus is thought to have spread in 2019 from a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan where live wild animals were sold, and China has been accused of being a secret Wuhan virus. Prepared in the laboratory.
Asked if he could say with confidence that the virus had been developed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, President Trump said, "Yes."
The United Nations then sent a team to China to investigate, which said in its investigative report that "it would be premature to draw any conclusions from our mission in Wuhan as to whether the COD 19 epidemic originated in China." ۔ '
The United States is deeply concerned about the findings of a World Health Organization (WHO) report. (Photo AFP)
Michael Ryan, the WHO's emergency director, said: "We have all the assumptions, and it would be premature to conclude that the virus originated inside or outside China.
The United States has expressed distrust in the report, while China has rejected US objections to the Corona virus investigation report, saying the United States has already damaged the World Health Organization and should not point fingers at China or other countries. ۔
The United States has expressed deep concern over the findings of a World Health Organization (WHO) investigation, saying China should also provide data on the early days of the corona virus outbreak.
According to Reuters, a statement from the Chinese embassy on US concerns said the United States should not point fingers at China or all countries that have supported the World Health Organization during the epidemic.
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