China Starts Vaccinating Children as Young as 3 Amid New Surge of COVID-19 Cases

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Children as young as 3 years old will start receiving vaccine doses in China as the country battles what Beijing has described as โ€œrapidly developingโ€ local COVID-19 clusters.

City and provincial authorities in at least seven provinces have issued notices in recent days requiring children between 3 and 11 years of age to be inoculated, widening Chinaโ€™s vaccination campaign as the regime looks to lock down cities and quarantine en masse those suspected of carrying the virus.

โ€œAll who should get vaccinated will get vaccinated,โ€ some government announcements read.

The new rules place China among a handful of countries with the lowest age limits for vaccination, alongside the United Arab Emirates, which rolled out Chinaโ€™s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 3 to 17, and Cuba, which started giving shots to children as young as 2 in September.

The United States is now planning a large-scale rollout of COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5 and older.

With only about 100 days remaining before Beijing is set to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, the regime has promised a โ€œsafe and splendidโ€ games while aggressively pushing ahead with its โ€œzero toleranceโ€ COVID-19 policy. Its heavily restrictive containment measures have caused analysts to warn that they could negatively affect Chinaโ€™s already weakening economy.

The virus has continued to spread in China even though more than 76 percent of the population in China has been fully vaccinated.

Over the past week, clusters of infections have emerged in about a dozen provinces, and the outbreak is still at risk of expanding, Mi Feng, a spokesperson for National Health Commission, said during an Oct. 24 press conference.

Shijiazhuang, a provincial capital near Beijing, quarantined nearly 2,000 people in recent days after one case of COVID-19 was reported, with the city mobilizing thousands of medical staff to search for potential infections. Tens of thousands of locals in some parts of the countryโ€™s northern Inner Mongolia region are now confined to their homes, with officials threatening criminal prosecution for violators.

China approved in June the emergency use of two inactivated vaccines by Sinovac and Beijing Institute of Biological Products, Sinopharmโ€™s research institute in Beijing, on those aged 3 to 17. In August, it approved a third vaccine from Sinopharmโ€™s Wuhan affiliate on the same age group.

By Eva Fu

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