Update: Chinese health official urges cranked up COVID-19 vaccination

Update: Chinese health official urges cranked up COVID-19 vaccination © Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) — It is a “pressing” task to step up COVID-19 vaccination across China amid mounting risk of virus mutation, a health official said Friday. He Qinghua, an official with the National Health Commission (NHC), made the remarks at a press conference in Beijing. Citing statistics from the World Health Organization, He said that the variations of novel coronavirus are increasingly frequent. Chinese inactivated COVID-19 vaccines have proved effective against several mutated strains of COVID-19, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention expert Shao…