Over 845.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered across China as of Thursday, the National Health Commission (NHC) said Friday.
Also on Friday, a health official with the NHC said at a press conference that a total of 622 million people had been vaccinated in China by Thursday.
Meanwhile, The global death toll from the coronavirus has reached 3.78 million, while the overall number of confirmed cases is around 175 million, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
The list of the most affected countries includes the US, India, and Brazil. In the United States, over 33.4 million cases have been confirmed so far, and the death toll from the virus has reached 599,000.
It is followed by India, which witnessed a terrifying spike in cases in May, with a total of 29 million COVID-19 infected and over 363,000 deaths. At the same time, Brazil has confirmed around 17.3 million cases and the second-highest death toll in the world of around 484,000.
