China will provide COVID-19 vaccines free of charge to all its citizens, said Zeng Yixin, deputy head of the National Health Commission, at a press conference on Dec 31.
Beijing started administering COVID-19 vaccines among specific groups of people with higher infection risks.
Beijing reported seven new locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases on Dec 28, according to the Beijing municipal health commission.
The city of Wuhan in Central China has started the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccine candidates on certain key groups of people, the municipal government said on Dec 28.
Beijing has expanded its nucleic acid testing and tightened COVID-19 prevention and control measures following new reports of local COVID-19 infections, local authorities said on Dec 28.
About 180,000 people in key groups in Guangdong, China's most populous province, had received free COVID-19 vaccine shots by Dec 22, with no serious side effects reported.
China will erect an immunity barrier against COVID-19 via high vaccination rates, an immunization expert said.
China started the construction of a plant for manufacturing an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine on Dec 21, with production operations due to begin in eight months, according to local authorities.
China will start inoculating some key groups with COVID-19 vaccines in this winter-spring period, said a National Health Commission (NHC) official in Beijing on Dec 19.
International passenger flights that fail to meet China's epidemic control requirements will be subject to a longer suspension period, according to the country's civil aviation regulator.
China's COVID-19 vaccine development has entered the "final sprint," with the country preparing for the mass production of COVID-19 vaccines, according to an official from the National Health Commission (NHC).
The Shanghai municipality has strengthened port, airport, and cold-chain transport control to fight against COVID-19, authorities said on Dec 7.
On Dec 2, a total of 18 COVID-19 patients were newly discharged from hospitals after recovery across the Chinese mainland, the National Health Commission said in a daily report on Dec 3.
A national platform designed to trace and manage cold-chain imports has been established and put into operation recently as China tightens measures to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 infections from cold, imported food products.
China's National Health Commission said on Dec 2 that it received reports of nine newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on Dec 1, including two domestically transmitted cases and seven imported ones.
This border city of Manzhouli in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region will launch the third round of citywide nucleic acid testing starting on Dec 3, local authorities said on Dec 2.
North China's Tianjin municipality found no new cases of COVID-19 from its latest round of nucleic acid testing involving six groups of people in the Binhai New Area, local authorities said on Dec 1.
China's National Health Commission said on Nov 30 that it received reports of 18 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on Nov 29, including three domestically transmitted cases and 15 imported ones.
China will step up efforts to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 through imported cold-chain foods amid recent reports of cold-chain packaging and environments testing positive for the novel coronavirus, an official said on Nov 27.
North China's Tianjin municipality will launch a new round of nucleic acid testing for six groups of people in the Binhai New Area starting on Nov 28, local authorities said on Nov 27.