In China, the cost of vaccinating the population against COVID-19 was estimated.

One dose of the Sinopharm or Sinovac vaccine, which most people were vaccinated with, was 16 yuan. Total for vaccination CHINAspent 150 billion yuan

Vaccination of the Chinese population against CORONAVIRUS cost the country 150 billion yuan (more than 16 billion rubles at the rate of the Central Bank of RUSSIA on March 11), the South China Morning Post newspaper writes, citing data from the National HEALTH Security Administration (NHSA).

The publication indicates that one dose of the vaccine costs an average of 16 yuan (about 175 rubles). In most cases, people were vaccinated with drugs from the state company Sinopharm and private Sinovac.

Another 4.3 billion yuan was spent on tests, the NHSA said. This amount, the newspaper notes, is less than the real amount spent in the country on testing, since it has been carried out at the expense of local budgets since May last year.

Since the fall of last year, China, from where the coronavirus began to spread around the world in 2019, began to gradually ease the pandemic restrictions that had been in effect all the time before: they reduced the quarantine period for those who had contact with the infected, canceled indiscriminate universal PCR testing, etc.

Against this background, reports began to appear about a surge in the incidence of the virus. At the end of December, the Financial Times, citing the deputy DIRECTOR of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Sun Yang, wrote that in the first 20 days of the month after the lifting of restrictions, about 250 million people fell ill, that is, almost a fifth of the population.

Such data raised concerns about the emergence of a new wave of the pandemic in other countries. Many states have decided to tighten the requirements for those entering from China. The United States , for example, from January began to demand a negative test for coronavirus from such persons and canceled this measure only on March 10.

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