The Chinese Communist Party’s Kexin vaccine.
The CCP is spreading vaccines internationally and expanding its political influence by engaging in New Crown (Chinese Communist Virus, COVID-19) vaccine diplomacy, but foreign media are shocked to learn that the CCP is actually facing a vaccine shortage, causing its domestic vaccination rate to lag far behind that of countries like the United States.
Health Care Commission Stretches Two Doses of Vaccine to 8 Weeks
On April 8, Bloomberg quoted a source as saying that the Chinese Communist Party is actually facing a “vaccine shortage” and that its health authorities have had to lengthen the interval between vaccinations. In March, China’s National Health Commission updated its guidelines for vaccination against the new coronavirus, saying that the second dose of inactivated vaccine should be completed “within 8 weeks” of the first dose, a much longer interval than that for domestic vaccines.
According to information from the mainland, the second dose of the first vaccine from the Chinese Communist Party, the Beijing Biological Vaccine from Sinopharm, was administered two to four weeks after the first dose, while the Beijing municipal authorities require a 21-day interval between doses of the domestic Kexing vaccine in Beijing, or 2-4 weeks for other circumstances such as work needs.
In the Western vaccination process, the interval between two doses varies from 21 to 28 days, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends no more than 6 weeks. The UK recommends an interval of 4 to 12 weeks for the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine.
Bloomberg reports that the shortage of vaccine supply means that the huge plan launched by the Chinese Communist Party to reach 560 million people (or 40% of the total population) by the end of June is feared to have been missed. Currently, China is still lagging behind the U.S., Israel and several other Western countries in vaccination rates as its supply bottleneck approaches, even though domestic vaccinations have increased to nearly five million doses a day.
According to Bloomberg’s Vaccine Tracker data, only 5 out of every 100 Chinese are currently vaccinated, compared to 27 in the U.S. and 56 in Israel. Bloomberg believes this will cause the CCP to fall behind competitors such as the U.S. in terms of herd immunization and reopening its economy and borders.
Vaccine supply imbalance prioritizes certain large cities
Bloomberg quotes knowledgeable sources as saying that the Communist Party’s 40 percent vaccination target is not evenly distributed across the country, with developed, densely populated megacities in eastern China taking priority given tight supplies, while remote, sparsely populated western provinces will come in behind.
The capital, Beijing, for example, does not appear to have any short-term concerns, with more than half of Beijingers already vaccinated. Shanghai, with a population of more than 20 million, is not as well-stocked as Beijing and is now raising the interval between doses of the Coxin vaccine from 14 days to 21 days, a source said. So far, Shanghai has administered only 5.5 million doses of the vaccine.
The sources also said the local government in Guangdong province has selected five cities – Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan and Zhuhai – to enjoy “vaccine priority” while ordering other cities to stop administering the vaccine. The local CDC in Wuhan has informed some neighborhoods that it has temporarily suspended vaccinations because it has run out of vaccine.
Some cities in northeastern China have banned people from getting the first dose of the vaccine because they want to save it for those waiting for the second dose, sources close to the situation said.
Recently some netizens have also taken to social media platforms to complain, such as Wang Yuemei, 42, a resident of northeastern Jilin province, who said local officials told her she could not book a vaccination, “They said there is a shortage of vaccine and I am currently in a wait-and-see situation because even if I get the first dose, I cannot get the second one. “
Despite the shortage, the Chinese Communist Party has stepped up its “vaccine diplomacy” internationally, having donated/sold more than 100 million doses of vaccines overseas, and will export more doses to poorer countries as it looks to join the WHO-backed Covax program.
The Communist Party has also been internationally ridiculed for claiming to provide vaccines for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, which Japan has refused to do, and for donating vaccines to Paraguay, but only if the country “breaks off diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
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