China Announces   Vaccinating   More Than  Billion People  against Corona

Today, Saturday, the Chinese Disease Control Administration announced that the proportion of the population that has been fully vaccinated against the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19)  has reached 82.5%.

"As of December 10,  one billion and 162 thousand people have been fully vaccinated," said Wu Lianyu, deputy head of the Disease Control Department of the State Health Commission, adding that 82.5% of the population had been vaccinated.

The administration also announced that about 120.6 million people had received a third booster dose of the vaccine.

It should be noted that the latest population statistics conducted by the Chinese authorities showed that the country's population exceeded 1.4 billion.

On the other hand, a member of the Virology Committee and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Peter Chumakov, announced that the Coronavirus needs to go through two stages of development before it becomes a seasonal infection.

Speaking to Ura.ru, a news website he said, "the first stage is the increase in infection and the spread of the epidemic.

This is due to the fact that the virus begins to adapt to humans and achieve the best mode of replication because the human environment is different from that of bats."

He added, "The good (second) stage is characterized by a decrease in infection, which is when, after the virus has adapted, it begins to decrease in pathogenicity. This is the transition to the usual form of seasonal infection."

And the  Russian scientist expressed his belief that the emergence of the "Omicron" mutant may indicate a transition to the second stage of the virus's development.

He explained that as we'll see, we need two or three more weeks to understand the direction in which the situation is developing, and to what extent it displaces other breeds because so far in general the situation can be interpreted in completely different ways.