beijing china has given complete doses of covid19 vaccines to about 756 of its population as of oct 23 national health commission spokesperson mi feng said on sundaysome 1068 billion people have now been inoculated with the required dosages out of a population of 1412 billion mi told a news briefingthe country administered 2245 billion doses of covid19 vaccines as of saturday official data showedchina is giving booster shots to adults whose last dose was at least six months earlier with priority groups including essential workers older people and those with weaker immune systems data showed antibodies elicited by vaccines including the mostused shots from sinovac and sinopharm declined within monthswang huaqing chief expert for the immunization program at the chinese center for disease control and prevention said china would not keep giving people booster shots after booster shotswe hope that an ideal vaccine works well with the full doses of immunization wang told the briefingeven if it needs to be strengthened later the number of boosters is limited wang said we hope in the future there will be better vaccines and better vaccination procedures to achieve solid protection among the publicchina has largely contained the virus in most areas and the sporadic local outbreaks are tiny compared with those seen in other countrieshowever mi cautioned on sunday there is increasing risk that chinas latest outbreak involving over 100 infections in a week across 11 provincial areas will spread further