1) Why #China's bid to woo the world with vaccines is backfiring
Strange surge of Covid in Chile, reports of a single dose being only 3% effective and supply failures.
Vaccine diplomacy, the Health Silk Road, is a key part of the #CCP's propaganda drive.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
Strange surge of Covid in Chile, reports of a single dose being only 3% effective and supply failures.
Vaccine diplomacy, the Health Silk Road, is a key part of the #CCP's propaganda drive.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
2) Singapore's supplies have been sitting in storage since February. Several countries, including Poland, South Korea and Vietnam, rejected the vaccine offer due to the lack of reliable data about efficacy or trials.
The pro-China president of the Philippines declined his shot.
The pro-China president of the Philippines declined his shot.
3) Chile used a Chinese vaccine in one of the world's fastest vaccination drives, but then saw a strange surge in Covid cases. In the UAE, some recipients had to be given a third injection after two were found to deliver insufficient immunity.
4) Chile has vaccinated more than four in ten citizens, not far behind British and Israeli rates – yet its confirmed fatality rate from Covid is 16 times higher than the UK, with ten times more cases.
5) 'Unless Chinese firms can improve standards and provide data to show consistent effectiveness, their vaccines are likely to be used only by desperate countries where any vaccine may be attractive, particularly if provided for free,' said Prof Petrovsky.
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