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More than 50 countries launch COVID-19 vaccination campaigns – SBS News
A year on after the first global cases of COVID-19 appeared in Wuhan, a number of countries have already begun implementing mass vaccination programs.
Around 50 countries around the world have already started vaccinating their people against COVID-19, barely a year after the first alert by China signalled the start of the epidemic.
A snapshot:
China leads the way
China, where the pandemic first emerged, was also the first to start vaccinations over the summer, without waiting for a vaccine to be formally authorised but targeting the most vulnerable.
To date nearly five million Chinese people have been vaccinated. Beijing on Thursday granted “conditional”…
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