BEIJING: China's capital is offering elderly residents state-backed insurance for"medical accidents" linked to COVID-19 shots to ease vaccination hesitancy among those most vulnerable, as Beijing ramps up inoculations during its worst outbreak.
Chinese officials have pointed to relatively lower vaccination rates among the elderly as a key weakness in its"dynamic zero-COVID" strategy. The city of 22 million people had fully inoculated 97.7 per cent of its adult residents as of September last year, but only 80.6 per cent of people aged 60 and over had received their first dose by mid-April this year, according to city officials.
The insurance policy payout could be as high as 500,000 yuan per person for a single benefit, according to the report, which didn't provide specific details of the plan. Elsewhere, several districts in the northern city of Tianjin, also battling a fresh Omicron cluster, have pledged to"strictly limit" entry into venues such as stadiums for unvaccinated senior citizens who don't have medical conditions that render vaccination unsuitable.
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