BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) - Concern is mounting that China s Covid-19 vaccines are less effective at quelling the disease, raising questions about nations from Brazil to Hungary that are depending on the shots and the country s own mammoth inoculation drive.
While vaccines developed by Pfizer, Moderna and even Russia s Sputnik have delivered protection rates of more than 90 per cent, Chinese candidates have generally reported much lower efficacy results.
Research released on Sunday showed that the rate for Sinovac Biotech s vaccine - deployed in Indonesia and Brazil - was just above 50 per cent, barely meeting the minimum protection required for Covid-19 vaccines by leading global drug regulators.
. Concern is mounting that China s coronavirus vaccines are less effective at quelling the disease, raising questions about nations from Brazil to Hungary that are depending on the shots and the country s own mammoth inoculation drive. While vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc., Moderna Inc. and even Russia s Sputnik shot have delivered protection rates of more than 90%, Chinese candidates have generally reported much lower efficacy results. Research released Sunday showed the rate for Sinovac Biotech Ltd. s vaccine deployed in Indonesia and Brazil was just above 50%, barely meeting the minimum protection required for coronavirus vaccines by leading global drug regulators. The other Chinese shots have reported efficacy rates of between 66% to 79%.
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It was a seven-minute CNN report on Malawi, a country in East Africa that is one of the world’s poorest. Coronavirus vaccines were nowhere to be found in Malawi, the report said, because richer countries were hogging the supplies. The video focused on Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi’s second-largest city, showing the strain the facility was under as it battled the virus. The hospital’s workers were tending to infected patients but had little prospect of getting vaccinated soon.
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China pushes vaccine on bankers, colleges to catch up with US
Jun Luo and John Liu
Apr 5, 2021 – 3.36pm
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Hong Kong/Beijing | China is ramping up its COVID-19 vaccination push, aiming to be twice as fast as the US by pressuring Communist Party members, bank workers and college staff to get shots, as the lagging rollout threatens to undermine the advantage it secured by effectively wiping out the virus.
The inoculation effort has been stepped up markedly in recent weeks, with China now administering an average of 5 million doses a day from less than a million at the start of the year. While a significant increase, that translates to five doses for every 100 people, compared with 25 in the US and 56 in Israel, according to Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker.