OREANDA-NEWS. In China, 15 million people participated in vaccination against coronavirus. This statement was made by Wang Bin, the representative of the Department of Disease Control of the State Committee for Hygiene and Health. The words of the Chinese official are quoted by TASS.

Over the past week, more than 5 million doses of vaccines have been distributed to key populations, he said. A week earlier, a representative of the Chinese department reported about 10 million vaccinated citizens.

The program of mass vaccination of Chinese residents started on December 15, 2020, and drugs developed in China are used to immunize the population. According to the forecasts of the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, by February 15, the Chinese authorities expect to vaccinate 50 million people against the coronavirus.

Over the past day, 118 cases of COVID-19 infection were detected in China, of which 106 were recorded inside the country. According to the State Health Committee of the People's Republic of China, the new epicenter of infection was the north-eastern province of Jilin. In the province, 43 cases of coronavirus were registered in the last 24 hours, compared to 30 the day before.There was also information that a British strain of coronavirus was discovered in Beijing for the first time