Zhong Nanshan: China's new crown vaccine coverage rate will reach 80% by the end of the year

China News Service, Beijing, May 29 (Hao Lingyu and Li Chun) Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering , who is participating in the academician meeting of the two academies , pointed out in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.

Recently, there have been sporadic cases of the epidemic in mainland China, and the willingness to vaccination has also increased.

According to China's national health committee data will be released, as of May 27, mainland China's total vaccine inoculation new crown has more than 580 million times.

"As far as I know, at the beginning of July, the country should reach (coverage rate) 40%, and 80% by the end of this year.

The international community has widely noticed that in the face of the global public health crisis of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the formation of herd immunity in a certain country is not enough to truly respond to the challenges brought by the epidemic, and it must rely on international cooperation to fight the epidemic.

Zhong Nanshan said that because of this, he participated in the World Health Organization to work independently committee will, a strong desire to create an international health crises of the committee will have to lead the government, but also economics, health experts and government economic, health officials to Co-organized.

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