China Blocks Water Vaccine Concerns: "Party and Leaders All Vaccinated with Domestic Products"

On the 21st, residents lined up to wait for their turn at a COVID-19 nucleic acid testing site set up in downtown Shanghai, China.

The Chinese government announced that both the Party and state leaders have been vaccinated with domestically produced COVID-19 vaccines.

According to China’s state-run CCTV, Zheng Yixin, Deputy Director of the National Health Commission (NHC), stated at a press conference on epidemic prevention held on the 23rd, "All current Party and state leaders have already completed COVID-19 vaccination, and all the vaccines administered were domestically produced."

'Current Party and state leaders' are presumed to include at least the seven members of the Communist Party Central Politburo Standing Committee, such as President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang.

Deputy Director Zheng added, "This shows that the leaders place a high importance on epidemic prevention and have great confidence in our country's vaccines."

This announcement came amid growing claims that Chinese vaccines are less effective compared to messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines developed by Western pharmaceutical companies. China is providing its domestically produced vaccines to many countries worldwide, both free of charge and for a fee. Vaccine side effect controversies are also ongoing on Chinese online platforms.

Three Chinese COVID-19 vaccines have received emergency use authorization from the World Health Organization (WHO): Sinopharm (China National Pharmaceutical Group) vaccine, Sinovac (Sinovac Biotech) vaccine, and CanSino Biologics' 'Convidecia'.

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