Zeng Yixin, Vice Minister of the National Health Commission and head of the Vaccine R&D working group under the State Council's inter-agency task force, speaks during a news conference on COVID-19 vaccination, in Beijing, China Dec 19, 2020. - Reuters
BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): Although only one local novel coronavirus infection was reported on Saturday (Dec 19), along with 22 imported cases, the vaccination plan unveiled by the State Council, the country's Cabinet, that day has still triggered a nationwide sense of relief and expectancy.
Although the virus has been tamed for months in the country, it has never been free of the threat of its resurgence, as the number of imported infections has been on a sharp increase with the worsening of the pandemic overseas, and local infections have appeared in various parts of the country since the end of the national day holiday on Oct 7, when the country had not seen local infections over the previous consecutive 53 days.
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