Hunan has started COVID-19 vaccination for teenagers aged between 15 and 17 on August 1, 2021. The photo shows a student receiving a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the makeshift vaccination site at the Hengyang No.1 Middle School on that day. (Photo/Zhou Wei)

The photo, taken on August 1, shows a teenager receiving COVID-19 vaccine at the stadium of the Xiangxi Vocational and Technical College for Nationalities. (Photo/Liu Zhenjun)

The photo, taken on August 1, shows medical staff vaccinating teenagers aged between 15 and 17 at the stadium of the Xiangxi Vocational and Technical College for Nationalities. (Photo/Peng Jing)

The Hunan Department of Education published an emergency notification on July 28 on further strengthening epidemic prevention and control work in schools to safeguard the life and health of all the faculty and students. COVID-19 Vaccination for secondary school students will be launched in August.

According to the deployment of the Hunan provincial joint prevention and control mechanism against COVID-19, vaccination for students aged between 15 and 17 years old were scheduled to be launched in August, and that for those between 12 and 14 will be launched in September. As for the end of October, all students between 12 and 17 years old will be vaccinated.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: hunantoday, Hunan Daily