Top China exec: Vaccines have low effectiveness
The Philippine Star|April 13, 2021
BEIJING (AP) – Current vaccines offer low protection against the coronavirus and mixing them is among strategies being considered to boost their effectiveness, China’s top disease control official has admitted in a rare acknowledgment.
Top China exec: Vaccines have low effectiveness

China has distributed hundreds of millions of doses of domestically made vaccines abroad and is relying on them for its own mass immunization campaign.

Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention director Gao Fu, however, said at a conference last Saturday their efficacy rates needed improvement.

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