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Facts and mysteries about Chinese Covid vaccines

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Facts and mysteries about Chinese Covid vaccines

Do you get vaccinated (illegally) in Italy with Chinese anti Covid vaccines? The Guardia di Finanza investigates. While Italian personalities who work in China say that vaccination, although not mandatory, has been in place for some time …

Have Chinese anti Covid vaccines arrived (under the counter) in Naples? The Guardia di Finanza has initiated checks, while one wonders why the Asian-Neapolitan community does not get sick from Covid-19. During the second wave, in Naples, only 5 Chinese out of 5,200 became ill.

In Beijing, meanwhile, the emergency administration continues. And there are those who leave Italy to receive the drug.

All the details.

THE CHINESE VACCINES

Five vaccines have reached clinical phase 3 in China. The latest was developed by Anhui ZhifeiLongcom , a subsidiary of Chongqing Zhifei Biological, listed in Shenzhen.

Among the drugs that are candidates for commercialization by the WHO is the Sinovac vaccine, created in collaboration with the Butantan Institute of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and which is based on the technology of the inactivated virus. The vaccine activates a fast immune response.

A good immune response was recorded, in the first and second phase clinical tests, also by the two classic vaccines produced by Sinopharm, in collaboration, respectively, with the Wuhan Institute and the Beijing Institute. The drugs are currently being tested 3 and are part of the Chinese emergency administration program. Emergency administration also authorized for the fourth Chinese vaccine, the one produced by Cansino Biologics. The drug uses a non-replicating viral vector (there are no drugs on the market made with this technology).

THE CHINESE VACCINE CIRCULATES IN NAPLES

And one of these vaccines or more than one has also arrived in Naples, despite not having been approved by the EU. Wu Zhiqiang, spokesman for the Chinese community in Naples, told AvellinoToday : "We are aware that, within the Chinese communities in Campania, there have been some episodes regarding the arrival of the vaccine directly from China but let's distance ourselves from what it happened in a clandestine and illegal way ”.

IMMUNE CHINESE

Will this be the answer to the dilemma on the immune Chinese-Campania region? We certainly have the data: only 5 infected in Naples, out of a community that records 5,200.

CHECKS BY THE FINANCE POLICE

Meanwhile, the checks have started. The Guardia di Finanza of Naples has launched more detailed and in-depth checks, with the military of the provincial command who have decided to conduct targeted checks on parcels from China and on refrigerators, storage materials and plants for pharmaceutical products.

THE TRAVEL OF VACCINES

The Chinese, on the other hand, trust the means put in place by Beijing. And some have even returned home to be vaccinated. "I have friends who went to China to get vaccinated, paying about 10 euros, there are at least 5 types of drugs, all privately marketed," Song Xiaoling, former university professor of L'Orientale, tells Il Mattino .

THE CHINESE VACCINATION CAMPAIGN

What does this mean? That Beijing has already been vaccinating its citizens for months. “In November I got vaccinated against Covid19 in a hospital in China, I'm fine, I didn't have any fever or pain. It is not mandatory, anyone who wants can do it. Since October, the Chinese population has started vaccinating themselves against the Coronavirus. In Zhejiang, my region, there is no longer anyone infected. Zero. Many Chinese have left Italy to get the vaccine in China, many have also left from other countries such as Spain and Germany. I took two shots and paid 60 euros. A friend of mine, after getting the vaccine, went to the hospital and got tested to see if he had antibodies to Covid19 and he had them. The value was 2.1 ”, a Chinese trader from Rome tells Adnkronos.

MASS VACCINATION?

That in China would not yet be a real mass vaccination, however, for Michele Geraci, economist and parliamentarian of the League, very attached to China, where he often lives and works, who wrote on Twitter in recent days: "I vaccines are taken by managers and important figures if they go abroad for work. To date, Prof Zhang Wenhong told me just a few days ago <100k, no side effects, but we still have to wait until the end of the year for definitive results ".

CHINESE VACCINE REGISTERED IN THE ARAB EMIRATES

The United Arab Emirates are moving for a mass vaccination, with Chinese drugs. The country has registered the experimental vaccine from China's Sinopharm developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, which proved to be 86% effective in trial phase 3 against Covid-19. In September, the UAE had approved the drug for emergency use.

TURKEY READY FOR VACCINATION CAMPAIGN

Sinovac's vaccine, on the other hand, will be the drug of the vaccination campaign in Turkey, which should start on 11 December, thanks to the shipment of 20 million doses to Ankara. Sinovac is committed to sending another 20 million vials in January and 10 million in February.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/fatti-e-misteri-sui-vaccini-cinesi-anti-covid/ on Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:00:02 +0000.