China Pushes Vaccine on Bankers, Colleges to Catch Up With U.S.
- China has set ambitious target of 40% vaccinated by end-June
- Party members, workers at state-owned firms told to inoculate
A nurse administers a dose of the Sinovac Biotech Ltd. Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic in Shanghai, China on April 3.
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China is ramping up its Covid-19 vaccination push, aiming to be twice as fast as the U.S. by pressuring Communist Party members, bank workers and college staff to get shots, as the lagging rollout threatens to undermine the advantage it secured by effectively wiping out the virus.