149m shots taken

MORE than 149 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered across China as of Wednesday, the National Health Commission said Thursday.

Accident injures 3

THREE people were injured and nine others went missing during an explosive disposal operation in Chicheng County, North China’s Hebei Province, according to the local government Thursday.

The county government said on its website that the accident happened at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, when a local security firm was disposing of expired explosives for a mining company.

Desert control

NORTH China’s Shanxi Province carried out desertification prevention and control work on over 386,600 hectares of land in the past five years since 2016, local authorities said.