First Chinese company to release figures related to effectiveness

"Sinopharm" announces that its vaccine against "Corona" is 79% effective

Sinopharm is currently developing two vaccines.

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Yesterday, Chinese Sinopharm laboratories announced that one of its vaccines against the emerging corona virus (Covid-19) is 79.43% effective.

The giant "Sinopharm" group is the first Chinese company to announce figures related to the effectiveness of a vaccine being prepared, and it is currently developing two vaccines.

In China, where the virus appeared at the end of last year, about 15 vaccines were tested on humans, according to the World Health Organization.

In addition, a study by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that the number of people who contracted the emerging coronavirus in Wuhan, where the virus appeared at the end of last year, is 10 times greater than the announced toll.

The virus appeared last year in this city of 11 million people, located in central China.

A complete quarantine was imposed on her for a period of 76 days, starting January 23.

Tests showed that 4.43% of the city’s population had antibodies to the virus.

This figure, in relation to the city’s population, constitutes about 480,000 injuries, nearly 10 times more than the 50,000 injuries announced by the Chinese authorities.

Huang Yanzhong, a public health expert at the American Center for "Council on Foreign Relations" for studies, said that the difference may be linked to "the miscalculation of injuries during the period from the end of January to early February, when many people did not undergo tests."

Wuhan is the city most affected by the virus, which has resulted in the death of 4,634 people in the country, according to an official toll, including about 4,000 in Wuhan.

The last death from the virus was recorded in China in mid-May.

The same study showed that the infection rate was 0.44% in the rest of Hubei Province, of which Wuhan is its largest city.

• 15 vaccines against "Corona" were tested in China.

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