With 65 million doses administered as of Sunday, China needs to average around 4 million shots a day to meet that target. That would be enough to vaccinate China’s entire population eventually and honour its commitment to supply at least 463 million doses overseas through donations and exports. He declined to disclose China’s vaccine production rate or supply levels, when asked by Reuters. Gao Fu, head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, thinks China has sufficient production capacity to meet its goals, but cautions that translating capacity into products that meet standards is complicated. Before starting mass production, a newly built line needs to go through test runs and fine-tuning that could affect the production schedule, making it difficult to disclose precise production rates.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 15, 2021 07:52 UTC