The director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of China, Gao Fu, assured this Monday that they misinterpreted his sayings about the “low efficacy” of vaccines in your country.
His remarks, which took place at a press conference on Saturday, were “taken out of context”, he assured.
“After having discussed different immunization strategies, I mentioned the question of the protection rate of vaccines and expressed my reflection on the fact that we can optimize our supply process“Fu told the Chinese portal Guancha.com.
A man receives the COVIS vaccine in China. Photo: AFP
Immediately, Chinese state media rushed to defend local vaccines against COVID-19, to help Fu and clear the picture, amid a wave of skepticism from the population towards immunization.
Among Chinese vaccines, Argentina is already using Sinopharm and has contractually committed millions more doses. For this reason, Gao Fu’s statements were reproduced by different media. Among them, Clarion.
But the Argentine authorities, beyond the information that came from China and that was only modified this Monday, preferred to attack this newspaper. The Buenos Aires Deputy Minister of Health Nicolás Kreplak did it on Twitter (later retweeted by Minister Daniel Gollán) in which he accused Clarín of “misinforming.”
With the cover of the newspaper on Monday, the official said: “It is really very distressing that the media continue with the line of disinformation, transferring fear and uncertainty to the entire people, in the midst of a pandemic that already has these characteristics.”
Launching the vaccine in China faces several challenges, including supply shortages, as acceleration, including on the export front and so-called “vaccine diplomacy,” is pushing the capacity of domestic manufacturers to the limit.
In addition, uncertainty about the rate of protection of Chinese vaccines is growing compared to the western Pfizer and Moderna.
Especially after statements made by Fu on Saturday at a press conference in Chendgu, in which he said the country is evaluating two ways “to solve the problem” of not very high efficacy of existing vaccines.
Before Fu’s backtracking this morning on his remarks, Liangyou called a timely press conference on Sunday in which he stated that the government encourages voluntary vaccination and works to ensure that all those empowered to inoculate have access
“Vaccines do not protect only ourselves, but also our relatives, especially children and the elderly,” said the official of the National Health Commission, who pointed out that those over 18 years of age, as active participants in different social contexts, represent the majority of vaccine recipients.
China continues to struggle with the risk of a return to the epidemic due to the number of imported cases, added the epidemiologist, who cited the example of the city of Ruili, in Yunnan province, in the southwest of the country, where new sources of infection were reported at the end of March.
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