114% Vaxxed China Faces Largest COVID Outbreak in Two Years: Country Locks Down 30 Million Citizens

Daily cases double to 3,500.

QUICK FACTS:
  • China is facing its worst outbreak of COVID-19 cases since the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan, Forbes reports.
  • The country on Tuesday reported more than 3,500 new local cases.
  • This is despite mainland China having administered at least 3,198,272,000 doses of COVID vaccines so far, which is enough to have vaccinated about 114.4% of the country’s population, assuming every person needs 2 doses, according to Reuters.
  • “Because most vaccines require two doses and many countries have different schedules to deliver the second dose, we don’t know with this data how many people have ultimately received both doses,” Reuters emphasizes.
CHINA LOCKS DOWN MORE THAN 30 MILLION PEOPLE:
  • China has put nearly 30 million people under strict lockdown measures as the country recorded a steep rise in new coronavirus infections, which have hit a two-year high, The Independent reports.
  • At least 13 cities across the country were under full lockdown as of Tuesday, with partial lockdowns imposed in dozens of other cities.
BACKGROUND:
  • China’s National Health Commission reported 3,507 new local Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, up from 1,337 on Monday, Forbes reports.
  • China’s top infectious disease expert Zhang Wenhong called the ongoing outbreak the “most difficult period in the last two years of battling Covid”. He said the country was still in the “early stages of an exponential rise”, in an online post that was widely circulated on social media, according to The Independent.

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