With the Covid 19 cases rising all across the world and the shortage of vaccine supplies, China is expected to produce over 3 billion Covid 19 vaccines this year.
China Focused On Vaccine Research Immediately After the Pandemic Breakout
Zheng Zhongwei, the Head of the Working Group for Vaccine Development under the State Council Join Prevention and Control Mechanism Against Covid 19 released a statement. He said that the current production for Covid 19 vaccine in China stands at 5 billion doses annually.
He further spoke at a sub-forum at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference and said that China immediately started to focus on the research and development for the Covid 19 vaccine after the pandemic broke out. Zheng added that the country started to conduct research for above 12 types of vaccines across 10 research units across the country.
Zheng assured that China will be willing to supply vaccines globally in the latter half of 2021.
China Faces Vaccine Shortage
As per the latest reports, some areas in China are reportedly facing a shortage of the Covid 19 vaccines supplies. Following this, some of the netizens were unable to get their second shots of the Covid 19 vaccine.
However, a health official confirmed that the situation will be handled at ease by June this year. This comes after the vaccination drive in China slowed down in the past few days. As per the counts, the government administered 3.3 million vaccines in the past seven days till Monday. They had come down from 4.4 million average vaccines per day.
Zheng confirmed that the domestic vaccine supply is currently tight. But by May especially after June, the vaccination supply will be at ease significantly.
China has administered 145 million Covid 19 vaccinations so far and plans to vaccinate at least 40 percent of their population by the end of summer.
