China now vaccinating at staggering pace after slow start

Residents line up outside a vaccination centre in Beijing (Ng Han Guan/AP)

China has stepped up its vaccination programme, giving out 100 million shots of its Covid-19 jabs in the span of just five days last month.

After a slow start, China is now doing what virtually no other country in the world can: Leveraging the power and all-encompassing reach of its one-party system and a maturing domestic vaccine industry to administer shots at a staggering pace.