Shandong province invented a creative way to boost its vaccination campaign. The province gives those who have received two Covid shots a golden “health code.”
It’s a colored digital bar code that indicates people’s health status through a smartphone app. Originally adopted after the first coronavirus outbreaks last year, the code usually only has three colors: green, red, and yellow. The new code meanwhile adds a golden frame and emojis of Covid-19 vaccination shots and a shield to the green code. (Green means the person is allowed to move around freely.)
China has been accelerating its vaccination program in recent weeks. The country had administered over 275 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of Sunday, compared with just under 134 million a month ago, according to the National Health Commission.