They question the effectiveness of Chinese vaccines Sinovac and Sinopharm due to epidemics and severe conditions

Some countries are currently suffering from new coronavirus outbreaks despite maintaining high rates of inoculation of vaccines mainly made in China, suggesting that these preparations may not be as effective in combating the disease and its newer variants, he said. he stated in a The New York Times note.

The New York newspaper has developed a survey based on Covid-19 contagion data in some countries that have mainly used Chinese vaccines such as Seychelles, Mongolia or Chile. Mongolia has promised its people a “COVID-free summer”. Bahrain said there would be a “return to normal life”. The small island nation of Seychelles aimed to revive its economy, quotes the New York Times.

All three trusted, at least in part, in readily available Chinese-made vaccines, which would allow them to implement ambitious vaccination programs when much of the world did not have them. But instead of being coronavirus-free, all three countries have seen spikes in infections.

China launched its vaccine diplomacy campaign last year by pledging to provide an 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 the 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, according to the New York Times.

In Seychelles, Chile, Bahrain and Mongolia, 50 to 68% of the population has been fully vaccinated, overtaking the United States, according to Our World in Data, a data monitoring project. All four were among the 10 countries with the worst covid outbreaks last week, the newspaper said. 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 Covid-19 per million population 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 world in which three types of countries emerge from the pandemic: rich countries which have used their resources to obtain Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, poorer countries which are far from immunizing the majority of people. citizens, and then those who are totally inoculated but only partially protected.

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