BEIJING. China has eliminated internally spreading infections at home about a month after the detection in mid-July of the Delta variant outbreak of Covid that emerged at Nanjing airport. This is what the National Health Commission reported, according to which 21 cases were imported, of which 5 in Guangdong, 4 in Shanghai, 3 in both Tianjin and Yunnan, 2 in Beijing and one each in the provinces of Shanxi, Zhejiang, Henan and Sichuan. China’s most severe resurgence of the pandemic in months, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, has been brought under control with mass testing and targeted activity lockdowns.
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Meanwhile, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine produced in the country, thus officially launching the immunization campaign. The reports on Guardian. The drug, manufactured by Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp, received emergency approval from the regulator in July which sparked strong opposition from the medical and scientific community in Taiwan as it came before large-scale studies were available. and long-term that are generally used to approve vaccines.
The Authority limited itself to comparing the level of antibodies generated by the Medigenec vaccine with those produced by AstraZeneca. Currently 40% of Taiwan’s 23 million population has received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine. A big leap from May, when less than 5% of the population was immunized. The policy is to prioritize the first dose and administer the second only to the most at-risk categories such as healthcare professionals.