Chinese urgency on COVID-19 goes missing in jabs drive
"I'd like to keep an eye out for any adverse effects first," said Shi, who like many Chinese seems happy to take a wait-and-see approach.
Through aggressive lockdowns and mass testing of millions, China has had success controlling the virus that first surfaced on its soil in late 2019.
But vaccinating the world's most populous country is a different story.
China is still working to ramp up production of its four approved, domestically produced vaccines and has yet to approve any foreign-made shots in a global race for bragging rights.
For Shi, the problem is not accessibility, but a lack of urgency.
Through aggressive lockdowns and mass testing of millions, China has had success controlling the virus that first surfaced on its soil in late 2019.
But vaccinating the world's most populous country is a different story.
China is still working to ramp up production of its four approved, domestically produced vaccines and has yet to approve any foreign-made shots in a global race for bragging rights.
For Shi, the problem is not accessibility, but a lack of urgency.
"With China's control of the epidemic domestically and my lack of plans to go abroad in the near term, there is no need for now," she said.
Chinese experts have signalled the vaccination rate could soon quicken.
Zhong Nanshan, a respected pulmonologist and key national figure in the fight against COVID-19, said recently that China planned to immunise 40 percent of its 1.4 billion people by June.
That would require massively increasing the number of jabs given in China, where currently only around 3.5 percent of the population is inoculated.
That is far behind the UK's 32.99 jabs per 100 people and the US's 25.42, according to Our World in Data, a collaboration between Oxford University and a charity.
Chinese experts have signalled the vaccination rate could soon quicken.
Zhong Nanshan, a respected pulmonologist and key national figure in the fight against COVID-19, said recently that China planned to immunise 40 percent of its 1.4 billion people by June.
That would require massively increasing the number of jabs given in China, where currently only around 3.5 percent of the population is inoculated.
That is far behind the UK's 32.99 jabs per 100 people and the US's 25.42, according to Our World in Data, a collaboration between Oxford University and a charity.
China has had success controlling coronavirus, but vaccinations in the world's most populous country have proceeded slowly
China's current vaccination pace is of "great concern", infectious-disease specialist Zhang Wenhong has said
Some are taking a wait-and-see approach to getting vaccinated in China, where currently only 3.5 percent of the population is inoculated
China has committed to shipping vaccines overseas as it works to blunt foreign criticism of the initial spread of the virus from its shores