China has stepped up its vaccination programme, giving out 100 million shots of its Covid-19 jabs in the span of just five days last month. As of Wednesday, China had given out more than 704 million doses — with nearly half of those in May alone. China’s total is roughly a third of the 1.9 billion shots distributed globally, according to Our World in Data, an online research site. Sinovac has said it has doubled its production capacity to two billion doses a year, while Sinopharm has said it can make up to three billion doses a year. Sinovac has produced 540 million doses this year as of late May, the company said on Friday.

Source: Irish Independent June 03, 2021 13:52 UTC