Chinese-Made COVID-19 Vaccines Cause International Concern | Opinion Jianli Yang , Founder and president, Citizen Power Initiatives for China On 3/12/21 at 8:00 AM EST Towing a similar line, Chinese vaccines against COVID-19 are proving ineffective. No one thought that the inferior quality of Chinese vaccines would end people's lives. Indonesian nurse Erny Kusuma Sukma Dewi died soon after she was given a dose of Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac vaccine. According to the National Union of Indonesian Nurses, 33-year-old Dewi contracted COVID-19 soon after she took a Chinese vaccine. Following fever, difficulty breathing and coughing she died. Earlier this year, a Peruvian volunteer who took a trial of a Chinese vaccine died from COVID-19-related pneumonia. In December 2020, Peru's government suspended Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine because of a "serious adverse event" that occurred with a volunteer.