China is struggling to convince many of its residents to get inoculated — especially its vaccine-hesitant elderly – Copyright AFP Jade GAO Chinese anti-Covid vaccines are safe and have been given to the country’s top leaders, Beijing’s health authorities said Saturday, in a bid to reassure the population about their quality in the face of dwindling inoculation rates. Using snap lockdowns, long quarantines and mass testing, China is the last major economy still pursuing the goal of eliminating outbreaks, even as its zero-Covid strategy takes a heavy toll on the economy. But it has struggled to convince many Chinese people…