CGTN
MORE than 969 million Chinese people, or about 69 per cent of the country’s total population, have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Monday, according to data from the National Health Commission (NHC).

In total, over 2.11 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered across the country, said Wu Liangyou, deputy head of NHC’s Disease Control and Prevention Division, at a press briefing in Beijing on Tuesday.

More than 1.09 billion people, or about 77.6 per cent of the country’s total population, have received at least one dose, according to Wu. He added that nearly 162.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered to minors aged between 12 and 17.

China aims to achieve herd immunity by the end of this year. According to China’s top respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan, the country would need more than 80 per cent of the population to be fully inoculated to achieve that.