China to donate one million doses of vaccine to Cambodia
Syringes of the CoronaVac vaccine from Chinese Sinovac.
Beijing will "help" Cambodia with a million doses.
AP - Ng Han Guan
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China will send one million doses of its Sinovac vaccine to Cambodia, the Cambodian Prime Minister said on Saturday, while the vaccination campaign with CoronaVac has just started among caregivers in Turkey.
Announcements that follow criticisms born of results lower than those announced, published a few days ago in Brazil.
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Stéphane Lagarde
Friendly countries first served.
In the geopolitics of Chinese vaccines, Cambodia and Turkey figure prominently, but also Tanzania, Burma, Indonesia and all the countries visited in recent days by Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
The Chinese vaccine is more affordable and more easily transportable, Beijing has been repeating for weeks.
This “gift” to Cambodia coming to counter the doubts arising from the results measured in
Brazil
.
With Hun Sen in Sinovac's super VRP: "
We must use vaccines that have already been used on Chinese leaders and millions of people,
" the Cambodian Prime Minister explained via his Facebook account.
To financial and logistical arguments are now added that of production capacities.
Avalanche of figures in the state media: the Chinese pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm has pledged to produce 1 billion doses this year, recalls the Central China Television, which also points to the efforts of 18 local manufacturers to be at the rendezvous of mass vaccination.
"About Chinese vaccines: statistics and facts"
Chinese vaccine research and development against # COVID19: mature technology and sufficient production capacity #vaccinese #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/r6qUF9qUNV
- French CGTN (@CGTNFrancais) January 16, 2021
Finally, safety argument: following the deaths in Norway of elderly people vaccinated by competitor Pfizer,
Chinese experts are calling
for the use of RNA vaccines to be suspended, arguing that inactivated vaccines made in China are safer.
An impossible comparison, Chinese vaccines are not currently used on people over 59 years old.
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See also: China: in the face of doubts, Sinovac reaffirms the effectiveness of its anti-Covid-19 vaccine
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