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It tells you something about the phenomenally high level of Chinese vaccinations that I immediately thought “Oh, that’s low” when I saw that according to official figures reported by Reuters that yesterday they only did 8.32m jabs nationwide, which is below the 11m or 12m we often see. The total number of doses administered in China is now up to 1.382bn, which is roughly one in three doses across the whole planet.