
A medical worker inoculates a local resident with COVID-19 vaccine on Monday in Guangzhou, capital of South China’s Guangdong Province. The city had administered 10 million doses to more than 7.25 million people by Sunday. More than 500 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered across China as of Sunday, the National Health Commission said Monday. Photo: cnsphoto
Chinese health authorities said they will determine when to administer booster shots for COVID-19 based on analysis of early vaccinated groups to combat the threat of mutant strains, which Guangzhou and Shenzhen in South China’s Guangdong Province have been experiencing in the latest outbreak.



