More than 1.2 billion people have been completed

The State Council's joint control mechanism held a press conference at 3 pm on June 17.

He Qinghua, a first -level inspector of the National Health and Health Commission's CDC, said that according to the overall deployment of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, the National Health Commission continued to guide the vaccination of the new crown vaccine in various places. As of June 16, a total of 3393.119 million doses of the new crown vaccine were reported nationwide, and the total number of vaccination reached 1292.334 million. The 1259.184 million people had completed the entire process, which covered the number of people and the total number of vaccinations accounted for 91.66%and 89.31 of the country's total population, respectively. %. The 785.696 million people were completed, of which 39.873 million were enhanced in order to strengthen immunization. The number of elderly people over 60 years of age covered 231.449 million, accounting for 87.66%. The elderly who completed the whole process were 219.389 million, accounting for 83.09%. It is 17,1217 million to complete the strengthening of immunization for the elderly.

At the 75th World Health Conference on May 22 this year, Tan Desai, Director of the World Health Organization, clearly stated that although the number of new crown pneumoniars recently reported in the world has fallen sharply, it is not time to relax the vigilance. There are still nearly 70 national reports that the number of confirmed cases is increasing. In Africa with the lowest vaccine coverage, the number of deaths reported is also increasing. He Qinghua said that vaccination is still one of the important means of epidemic prevention and control, so people who have not yet completed vaccination should actively vaccinate the vaccine.

Source: CCTV News Client

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