In addition to the 47 Chinese workers reported earlier in Uganda, the BBC found similar cases in Angola and Serbia, where the number of infected people could be as high as one. It is believed that these workers have been inoculated with the new coronavirus vaccine of sinopac, a state-owned enterprise, before going abroad. The Chinese government quickly blocked the news and tried to turn a serious scientific issue into a political one. Recently, China pushed for the development of its new coronavirus vaccine in many countries in the Middle East.
Four days ago, at least 17 Chinese people were reported to have been infected, 16 of whom were employees of a state-owned Chinese company in lunda norte province, Mr Zhang, an angolan chinese-speaking media man, reportedly told WeChat. In addition, the infected Chinese had been implanted with the sinopharm vaccine according to the official arrangement before they went abroad.
A Chinese woman in Angola, who was first contacted by THE BBC, confirmed that the incident was true, but what the outside world can see now may be just the tip of the iceberg. She added that many infected Chinese are in poor economic condition and are discriminated against by their compatriots, which makes the situation worse.
Ms You said: generally speaking, people from China have been vaccinated, and it is true that there have been several cases recently where people have been vaccinated in China and got infected here. But they did not dare to say a word. They did not dare to report, but they found very little. Because when he declared it, sometimes he would say it, and people around him would be afraid of him and would not touch him. Then, chinese-funded hospitals, when they heard it was a new crown, did not receive treatment.
Ms. You also pointed out that if infected Chinese turn to the Angolan medical team for help, they cannot get any practical help except for some verbal suggestions. As for the local Chinese embassy, the current version of the incident is that such a lack of strict compliance with regulations and procedures resulted in the vaccine being ineffective. And outside doubts about the effectiveness of vaccines are largely inconclusive.
Almost at the same time, reports from Serbia indicated that about 300 of the more than 400 employees in a project department at the Tianjin Electric Power Construction Company in Pancevo, Serbia, had been confirmed. These included a large number of Chinese employees who had also been vaccinated against the new coronavirus from Sinopac, but were still infected.
Tianjin Power Construction has remained silent. Several calls to the company have been rejected, and its official website and many web pages related to the company’s Projects in Serbia have been deleted.
But Mr. Li of binzhou labor service director that recruits labor personnel for Tianjin Power Construction company confirms, the worker that this company sends abroad needs to vaccinate domestic vaccine really first.
Binzhou Labor Services Director Li: the company arrangement, have to play. The company is unified, or not let out. But their area is different, where fight, not necessarily.
The head of Another company, Bolong, which has also recruited staff for Tianjin Power Construction, also confirmed that since June, internal staff recruited by state-owned enterprises and migrant workers recruited abroad have had to be vaccinated before going abroad.
Bolong labor said: before leaving to take COVID-19 vaccine, all have a gathering place, at that place. It’s usually a shot, the domestic COVID-19.
However, sinopharm group has not yet responded to this reporter’s request for an interview.
As of press time, we have not been able to contact Chinese workers in Angola or Serbia with confirmed COVID-19 cases and confirm their vaccinations.
Ren Ruihong, former head of China’s Red Cross major disease relief program, told the BBC that Chinese expatriates were injected with the COVID-19 vaccine from around July. However, the several vaccines currently under development in China are all “inactivated vaccines” with low technical content, high production difficulties and risks, and the clinical trial data have been questioned. She was not surprised by the adverse consequences of the domestic vaccines.
Ren Ruihong said: I know that the vaccine should be “national medicine”, since July began to play. Because what they’re doing right now are all “inactivated vaccines,” and they’re doing phase III trials in the UNITED Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco. “Inactivated” is the most traditional method of vaccine preparation, with the lowest technical content. In fact, the production of “inactivated vaccines” is dangerous, relatively practical and also the worst. Like Pfizer and Medina’s mRNA vaccines, which are actually high tech, but once they’re developed, the whole process is relatively safer than that one, and the yield is stable.
Since the official outbreak, there has been an intense vaccine race in several countries that have the capacity to develop a vaccine. Chinese authorities gathered the vaccines, which have not been rigorously tested for safety, in key populations five months ago. With the success of Pfizer and Modena, Chinese officials are once again speeding up the launch of these vaccines. But in the face of external doubts, the authorities used Hu Xijin, Zhong Nanshan and others to force their so-called domestic vaccine results to defend.
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