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Local governments attempt to revive vaccination campaign with restriction mandates

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China’s vaccination campaign slowed down significantly over the past several weeks.

A daily average of 10.43 million doses were given last week, down from the already-slowing daily average of 15.96 million the week before. That's significantly lower than the last two weeks of June, which saw an ave...



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