China begins COVID-19 vaccine shots

By Masood Sattar Khan

(Pakistan News & Features Services)

China has begun using COVID-19 vaccine among its nationals as a pilot project to ascertain its results on the human body. 

According to the reports on October 20, Shaoxing in East China Zhejiang province has launched the voluntary emergency COVID-19 vaccine use drive for the city residents. It is being followed by Jiaxing and Yiwu cities of the same province. 

Meanwhile, China has declared that the country was following the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines in COVID-19 emergency rules. 

"Only people with high exposure to COVID-19 have received vaccine for emergency use in China without showing any serious adverse effects,” a Chinese official was quoted as saying. 

The Chinese major vaccine producer, China National Pharmaceutical Group of Sinopharm, has informed that it had only started its urgent use of vaccine in China. It further said that Sinopharm was fully prepared for massive production of vaccine as soon as it gets a go-ahead signal.