BEIJING, KOMPAS.com – Not everyone’s on China will be injected corona vaccine, according to the country’s top medical office.
Beijing argues that it prioritizes frontline workers and high-risk populations.
“Since the first wave Covid-19 appeared in Wuhan, China has survived the impact of Covid-19 several times, “said Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CNN Tuesday (15/9/2020).
He said this on the sidelines of a vaccine meeting in Shenzhen on Saturday (12/09/2020) according to the news agency China News Service government-run.
The question of vaccinating the public is one of balancing the “risks and benefits,” he added pointing to factors such as costs and potential side effects.
Gao continued, there is currently no need for mass vaccinations, but that could change if another major outbreak occurs.
This policy pursued by China is different from many Western countries, as well as Australia, which plans to carry out mass vaccinations.
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Addition of cases corona virus in “Panda Country” has decreased in recent months, despite the emergence of new clusters.
In Jilin for example in May, in Beijing the following month, then in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang in July. The government immediately locked down the area and carried out mass testing so that the outbreak could be contained within a few weeks.
Gao explained that the speed of the treatment was proof that China was effective in curbing the spread of the corona virus.
“The facts prove we have some magic weapons to respond to the epidemic,” he said China News Service which is quoted CNN.
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He added that each vaccine candidate will be prioritized for workers on the front lines of handling the outbreak, such as medical workers, Chinese citizens who work in countries. hotspots Covid-19, then people who work in crowds and at high risk such as restaurants, schools and cleaning services.
On Saturday (12/09/2020) China’s National Health Commission recorded only 10 new confirmed cases with symptoms, all of which were imported from abroad.
They also reported 70 cases of OTG (People Without Symptoms) that were counted separately, and all of them were also imports.
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