Italy Rejects Chinese COVID-19 Vaccines as China Admits They’re Less Effective Against Delta Variant

Epoch Times ^ | 06/27/2021 | Alex Wu

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Italy has joined a growing list of countries casting doubt on Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi told reporters at the end of a European Union summit on June 22: “The Chinese vaccine … has shown itself not to be adequate. You can see that from Chile’s experience of tackling the epidemic.”

More than half of the Chilean population has received the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccines, yet the efficacy rate has reportedly been 16 percent after the first dose and 67 percent after a second dose. Chile is among the top 10 countries worst-hit by COVID-19.

On June 24, Feng Zijian, researcher and former deputy director at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, admitted in an interview on Chinese state-run media CCTV that the Chinese-made vaccines don’t produce enough antibodies and are less effective against the Delta variant—formerly known as the Indian variant—of the virus.

The Delta variant caused 85 percent of the infections in the recent surge of COVID-19 in China’s Guangdong Province, despite tens of millions of local residents being vaccinated.

Chinese vaccines haven’t been approved for use in the United States or the European Union. The Chinese vaccines are also excluded from the EU’s digital vaccination pass program. The Chinese regime has announced retaliatory measures, denying entry for travelers who haven’t been inoculated with Chinese vaccines and not recognizing vaccination with non-Chinese vaccines. The measures have prevented many overseas Chinese citizens from returning to the country.

Despite their low efficacy and lack of transparency in trial data, the World Health Organization recently approved both the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines for emergency use.

That decision comes as more countries around the world are casting doubt on the Chinese vaccines.

[Trillian]

Chinese made virus and chinese made vaccine. hmmm

[montag813]

After their stellar track record with dog food and sheetrock, of course I trust China with vaccines to inject into my body!

[2aProtectsTheRest]

China’s vaccine was failing to prevent COVID infections and deaths well before the Delta (India) variant. It’s been absolute garbage from the start. The countries that relied on it have been seeing huge waves of new infections and deaths.

Only the American vaccines have proven effective through all the different variants. If you want something that works, BUY AMERICAN.