But the vaccines -- which retail at anything from 400 to 8,000 yuan -- aren't covered by medical insurance, and are priced beyond the reach of many people on middle-to-low incomes, RFA has learned. There are also safety concerns given the speed with which an experimental vaccine has been rolled out, and following a string of public health scandals triggered by fake, out-of-dat, and substandard vaccines that have sickened large numbers of people—many of them children—in recent years.
Beijing-based rights campaigner Guo Li said authorities at a residential complex in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou had offered the jab to families living in the apartment block.
