A Chinese border city hit by a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 has begun a five-day drive to vaccinate its entire population of 300,000 peopleBEIJING -- A Chinese border city hit by a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 began a five-day drive Friday to vaccinate its entire population of 300,000 people. A city Communist Party official told CCTV the previous day that 159,000 doses of vaccine had arrived in the city. The city has also said it would tighten controls around the porous border to try to stop anyone crossing illegally from Myanmar. China has largely eradicated local transmission of COVID-19 and quickly rolls out strict measures whenever a new cluster emerges. This is the first time China has tried to vaccinate an entire city in response to new outbreak.

Source: ABC News April 02, 2021 05:54 UTC