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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host the first meeting of an international forum on COVID-19 vaccine cooperation on August 5.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian says the meeting aims to promote the equitable distribution of vaccines.
It will be held via video link.
Zhao also says China has provided over 700 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to countries around the world, especially developing nations.
China's aviation authorities are working to implement closed-loop management on flight staff who have direct contact with international passengers and cargo in efforts to intensify COVID-19 prevention and control.
Feng Zhenglin is head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
He said international flight staff should be separated from those serving domestic flights and avoid contact with their family and community members when on duty.
Feng urged the aviation sector to increase efforts on COVID-19 containment for flight crews as well as the implementation of virus-control measures on airport ground services, especially third-party service providers working in airport operating areas.
He also called for pushing forward vaccinations for civil aviation employees and increasing the frequency of nucleic acid testing.
A famous tourist city in Hunan province plans to close all tourist sites today after the recent resurgence of COVID-19 cases.
City health officials in Zhangjiajie have launched a COVID testing drive in three regions with over 226-thousand samples collected so far.
Of the samples taken, 120-thousand have been tested, with one of them returning a positive result.
In the past few days, several cities in China have reported a spike in COVID-19 infections and several of the positive people had traveled to Zhangjiajie.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the U.S. has recommended that vaccinated people resume wearing masks in public indoor spaces amid a nationwide spike in COVID-19 cases.
The new guidance marks a sharp U-turn from the agency's position in May that vaccined people do not need to wear masks in indoor spaces.
Huawei says the users of its HarmonyOS 2 smartphone operating system have exceeded 40 million since its official launch in June.
The company says an average of eight users per second have updated their devices to the operating system since its launch.
Huawei expects the number of devices equipped with HarmonyOS to reach 300 million by the end of the year, including 200 million Huawei devices.
At the Tokyo Olympics, China overtook Japan to top the medal standings on Thursday after record-breaking performances of its swimmers and table tennis players.
Team China won three golds on Day 6 to lift its gold medal tally to 15.
The medal pursuit began in the swimming pool when Zhang Yufei won her first Olympic title in the women's 200-meter butterfly, setting a new Olympic record.
About an hour later, Zhang together with her teammates, stormed to gold in the women's 4×200 meter freestyle relay with a new world record.
China's third gold came in table tennis, which saw world number one Chen Meng overcome Sun Yingsha in an all-Chinese women's singles final.
Japan also ended the day with 15 gold medals in total after claiming two more in judo, but it has fewer silvers than China.
The United States remains in third with 14 gold.
