70% of Chinese folk jabbed by May – Beijing

SHANGHAI: As China is speeding up the pace of Covid-19 inoculation, Beijing is encouraging its residents, especially the elderly, to get vaccinated by posting inoculation data signs and “thank you notes.” Experts expect Beijing to reach a 70 percent inoculation rate, the threshold for herd immunity, by May.

Signs on the walls of several residential communities, mostly in hutong, in Dongcheng and Xicheng districts — two core districts in Beijing — show the inoculation rate that the community has achieved.