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09:30 | Lima, Mar. 6.
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) on Saturday affirmed that the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine reached an effectiveness of 79.34% in phase III of clinical trials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to the Beijing Institute of Biological Products.
Minsa made this clarification after Ernesto Bustamante said in a local TV program that Sinopharm vaccine's Wuhan strain had only 33% effectiveness, while the Beijing strain vaccine had 11.5%.
In a statement,
Minsa affirmed that —in addition to the reports of those trials in the UAE— the scientific journal The Lancet published results of phase I and II studies indicating the neutralizing capacity of the vaccine in different age groups.