Coronavirus: not everyone in China will need vaccine, CDC chief says
- Widespread vaccination won’t be needed as long as the country avoids another major outbreak, Gao Fu says
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Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on Sunday that large-scale vaccination for Covid-19 would only be needed if there was a major outbreak, like the one in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in February, China News Service reported.
“This is an issue of balancing risk and return,” Gao was quoted as saying
He said it would be a waste to vaccinate everyone when the coronavirus had largely been wiped out within China’s borders.
China reported 10 new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, all of which were imported.
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The CDC chief said the first batch of vaccines should be given to frontline medical and epidemic prevention workers, followed by security, cleaning and catering staff and civil servants working in crowded places.
