Countries that depended on Chinese vaccines and are now experiencing coronavirus outbreaks

Some countries are currently experiencing new outbreaks of COVID-19 despite maintaining high inoculation rates for vaccines primarily made in China, suggesting that these preparations may not be as effective in fighting the coronavirus and its newer variants. ., he assured this Wednesday The New York Times.

The New York newspaper developed a data-based survey of COVID-19 contagion in some countries that mainly used Chinese vaccines such as islas Seychelles, Mongolia o Chile.

Mongolia has promised its people a “COVID-free summer”. Bahrain said there would be a “return to normal life”. Small island nation of Seychelles aimed to revive its economy, said the New York Times.

All three trust, at least in part, readily available Chinese-made vaccines, which would allow them to implement ambitious immunization programs when much of the world did not have one.

But instead of being free from the coronavirus, all three countries experienced peaks of infections.

China launched its vaccine diplomacy campaign last year by pledging to provide a injection that would be safe and effective in preventing severe cases of COVID-19. At that time, the success of this vaccine and others in curbing transmission was less certain.

Now, Examples from various countries suggest that Chinese vaccines may not be very effective in preventing the spread of the virus, especially newer variants..

The experiences of these countries reveal a harsh reality facing the post-pandemic world: the degree of recovery may depend on the vaccines governments administer to their citizens, specifies the New York Times.

In Seychelles, Chile, Bahrain and Mongolia, 50 to 68 percent of the population has been fully immunized, overtaking the United States, according to Our world in data, a data monitoring project.

All four were among the ten countries with the worst COVID outbreaks last week., says the American media. And all four mainly use injections made by two Chinese vaccine manufacturers: Sinopharm and Sinovac Biotech.

“If the vaccines are good enough, we shouldn’t see this pattern. “said Jin Dongyan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong.

In the United States, about 45% of the population is fully vaccinated, mostly with doses manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Cases fell 94% in six months.

Israel provided Pfizer injections and has the second highest vaccination rate in the world, after Seychelles. The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus per million people in Israel is now around 4.95.

In Seychelles, which depended mainly on Sinopharm, that number exceeds 716 cases per million.

Such disparities could create a a world in which three types of countries emerge from the pandemic: the rich countries which have used their resources to obtain the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the poorest countries which are far from immunizing the majority of citizens, then those who are fully vaccinated but only partially protected, sostiene the New York Times.

China, along with the more than 90 countries that have received vaccines from that country, could end up in the third group, faced with this pandemic for months.

(With information from EFE)

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