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In a rare admission, Chinese official says home-grown vaccines’ effectiveness low

The Hindu | 11/04/2021 05:08 PM | Click to read full article

Chinese vaccines “don't have very high protection rates,” said the director of the China Centers for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a conference Saturday in the southwestern city of Chengdu. ✭✭

The effectiveness rate of a coronavirus vaccine from Sinovac at preventing symptomatic infections has been found to be as low as 50.4%.

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