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A pistillate wearing a look disguise to assistance curb the dispersed of the coronavirus is silhouetted arsenic she walks by a TV surface showing CCTV reporting fig of COVID-19 cases successful China, astatine a buying promenade successful Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

BEIJING – Chinese wellness officials announced Thursday that much than 1 cardinal radical person been afloat vaccinated against COVID-19 successful the world’s astir populous country, oregon astir 72% of its 1.4 cardinal people.

Through Wednesday, 2.16 cardinal vaccine doses had been administered and 1.01 cardinal radical had been afloat vaccinated, National Health Commission spokesperson Mi Feng said astatine a quality conference.

The announcement came arsenic China battles a caller outbreak of the delta variant successful the southeastern state of Fujian, wherever 200 cases person been confirmed successful the past six days.

Authorities person locked down affected neighborhoods, closed schools and amusement venues and restricted question retired of Fujian successful an effort to support the microorganism from spreading.

China has mostly stopped the dispersed of the coronavirus by imposing restrictions and wide investigating whenever caller cases are found. It besides limits introduction to the state and requires radical who get to quarantine successful a edifice for astatine slightest 2 weeks.

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