A worker transfers packages of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine at the Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Aug. 1, 2021.
A medical worker administers a dose of COVID-19 vaccine for a student at a high school in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, July 29, 2021. The city started COVID-19 vaccination for minors aged between 12 and 17 on Thursday.
CHANGSHA, July 30 (Xinhua) -- The city of Zhuzhou in central China's Hunan Province has closed cinemas, entertainment venues and tourist sites after it reported new asymptomatic coronavirus infections. Zhuzhou has since Thursday reported six asymptomatic cases, who had shared a boat on a river cruise in the city of Changde, also in Hunan, with three confirmed cases and another asymptomatic case, said the city's headquarters on COVID-19 prevention and control.
BUENOS AIRES, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Experts in viral diseases and infectology have highlighted the efficacy of Chinese vaccines against COVID-19 and its new variants. "According to the evidence available so far, vaccines that have been licensed by the World Health Organization (WHO) are effective against all variants in circulation globally," Jairo Mendez Rico, adviser on emerging viral diseases to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), told Xinhua recently.
