Some parts of China battle tight supply of COVID-19 vaccines
A nurse holds a syringe containing a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine made by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products, a unit of Sinopharm, at a vaccination center during a government-organized visit, in Beijing, China, April 15, 2021.
Residents ofsomepartsofChinathat are grappling withtightsupplies of coronavirusvaccineshave not received their second doses in time, but the crunch will ease by June as production is being stepped up, a health official told state media.
The pace ofChina's massive inoculation campaign has slowed, to a daily average of about 3.3 million doses in the seven days until Monday, down from the corresponding figure of 4.2 million in the week until April 12, Reuters calculations showed.
"At present, domestic vaccinesupplyis relativelytight, but from May, especially after June, the situation will ease significantly," Zheng Zhongwei, the director of a team coordinating vaccine development projects, told the Global Times in an interview.
Zheng did not say how severe the crunch was or which areas experiencedtightness. The Global Times, published by the official newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, did not say how long people in those areas had to wait for the second shot.
By Wednesday,Chinahad given more than 200 million doses ofvaccines, ranking only behind the United States, and it aims to inoculate 40 per centof its population by summer.
Big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai have widened vaccination efforts to include foreigners, with the pace insomecities outstripping the national average, asChinaprioritises supplies to key provinces.
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The capital city of Beijing, for example, has inoculated more than half of its population of 21.5 million.
This month Zheng saidChinawas likely to have produced 3 billion doses of thevaccinesby year-end, allowing it to meet the demand in the second half of 2021.
China's national guidelines allow intervals of up to eight weeks between the two doses ofvaccinesdeveloped by domestic firms Sinopharm and Sinovac Biotech.
Local authorities should make sure the second dose can be administered within eight weeks, said Mi Feng, a spokesman of the National Health Commission.
"Avoid the situation where there's no dose following the first one," he told a news conference on Wednesday.