School for Taiwan children joins city vaccination drive

More than 70 percent of students at a Shanghai school for the children of businesspeople from Taiwan who are eligible for free COVID-19 vaccination had received their first shot by the time the new semester started last week.

They are the beneficiaries of a city policy that has included residents between 12 and 17 who are from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in the voluntary vaccination drive since the start of this month.

The students received the inoculations for free, the same as their local peers. They received domestic vaccines made by either Sinopharm or Sinovac Biotech, with each vaccination involving two shots.