Children at the age of 12 to 17 years old are eligible to get Sinovac vaccine jabs after the country's National Agency of Drug and Food Control issued the emergency use authorization last Sunday.

As of July 1, over 30.48 million people have received their first vaccine doses, while 13.67 million others have gotten their second doses.

The Southeast Asian country is currently working to inoculate the targeted 181.5 million people, about 70 percent of its total population, by March 2022.