China is vaccinating a staggering 20 million people a day

Photo caption: A dose of a Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine is administered in Fuyang, China. Credit: Sheldon Cooper / SOPA Images / Shutterstock. Article by Smriti Mallapaty. Nature – June 9, 2021.

Scientists are impressed by China’s juggernaut of a vaccination drive, through which it is currently administering nearly 60% of all COVID-19 vaccine doses globally.

For more than a week, an average of about 20 million people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 every day in China. At this rate, the nation would have fully vaccinated the entire UK population in little more than six days. China now accounts for more than half of the 35 million or so people around the world receiving a COVID-19 shot each day. […]

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