Chinese Covid-19 vaccines to combat the coronavirus pandemic and bring back normalcy. These countries are now battling a surge in infections.
Examples from several countries suggest that the Chinese vaccines may not be very effective at preventing the spread of the virus, particularly the new variants, reported The New York Times (NYT).
In Seychelles, Chile, Bahrain and Mongolia, about 50 to 68 percent of the populations have been fully inoculated with Chinese vaccines, outpacing the United States, according to Our World in Data, a data-tracking project.
They are also among the top 10 countries with the worst Covid-19 outbreaks as recently as last week. "If the vaccines are sufficiently good, we should not see this pattern," said Jin