BEIJING: All incumbent leaders of the Communist Party of China and the State have been vaccinated with domestic COVID-19 vaccines, “showing that they attach great significance to virus control work and have great confidence in Chinese-made vaccines”, a senior health official unveiled.
Zeng Yixin, deputy director of the National Health Commission, also told a media briefing that three domestic vaccines have obtained emergency use authorization from the World Health Organization, and more than 100 countries have approved Chinese-developed shots for public use. “The leaders of more than 30 countries, including Turkey, Serbia, Cambodia and Chile, have been vaccinated with Chinese vaccines, which adds to the proof that Chinese vaccines have achieved widespread recognition from the international community,” he said.
China’s COVID-19 vaccines are safe and have gained global recognition, experts and officials said while calling on the elderly to get inoculated and boosted to protect against severe infections and deaths. Wang Fusheng, head of the infectious disease department at a unit of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, said online information that COVID-19 vaccines can trigger leukemia and diabetes, affect genetic development, cause tumor metastasis or antibody-dependent enhancement is irresponsible and false.
–The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
