Shanghai becomes first mainland Chinese city to offer expats coronavirus vaccines | South China Morning Post
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Shanghai becomes first mainland Chinese city to offer expats coronavirus vaccines. Foreigners who meet the requirements can voluntarily apply from Monday. However, expats will have to bear the costs and risks associated with the vaccine. Shanghai has announced it will provide coronavirus vaccines to expats living in the city. Shanghai has announced it will provide coronavirus vaccines to expats living in the city.
Shanghai has become the first Chinese mainland city to offer Covid-19
vaccines to foreign expats, local authorities have revealed. Foreigners who meet the age requirements can voluntarily apply for the vaccine from Monday.The Shanghai municipal government announced the plan on Tuesday, saying expats would have to bear the costs and risks associated with the vaccine.
Foreigners who want to be vaccinated can book appointments through the Health Cloud, an app run by local health authorities. They will be then informed via text messages of the date, time, and location of their vaccination, the government announced. Foreign nationals who have joined Shanghai’s public medical insurance scheme will be treated the same as Chinese nationals, accessing the vaccines free of charge. Those who are not covered by the insurance scheme will be charged 100 yuan (US$15.30) per dose.Authorities urged the potential recipients of the vaccine to pay close attention to their health within 14 days of inoculation. They warned anyone with an adverse response to the vaccine to go straight to a hospital.
Self-employed Shanghai-based American expat Michael Goffman, 41, said he supported the initiative because he believed that “any person living in China should have access to the vaccine if they wanted to take it”.
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