(Yicai Global) Dec. 28 -- Shenzhen residents going abroad, including international students, can book Covid-19 shots from today, with the government to pick up the tab.

Five clinics are open for the vaccinations, the South China tech hub announced on its official government WeChat account. These centers will take appointments for each of the next seven days from 11.00 a.m.

The announcement did not specify the company producing the inoculations, merely saying the number of appointments per day is expected to be 300 to 509 this week due to limited stocks.

Staffers at Shenzhen Luohu Hospital Group Luohu People's Hospital received injections of the inactivated Covid-19 vaccine made by China National Pharmaceutical Group, or Sinopharm, at the hospital yesterday, however, Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

The Center for Drug Evaluation of the National Medical Products Administration has accepted Sinopharm’s Beijing Institute of Biological Products’ application to market its inactivated Covid-19 vaccine, the agency announced on Dec. 24.

Editor: Ben Armour, Xiao Yi