56,000 Vaccinated Volunteers Travel Abroad, None Get Sick
Source: GlobalTimes
Sinopharm Chairman Liu Jingzhen, said at
a conference on Friday that some 100,000 people have been vaccinated
with the company's vaccine and have shown none adverse reactions so far.
Among those who were inoculated and travelled aboard, none have been
infected with the virus, said Liu.
Some of those other received
the emergency-use vaccine are employees of China National Petroleum
Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation and Technology giant
Huawei.
Liu said that there are 99 people in Huawei's Mexico office, and 81 were vaccinated. Ten unvaccinated employees contracted with the virus in an outbreak in this office.
The fact that no
one who received the vaccine has been infected, serves as more anecdotal
evidence that the vaccine is working, Tao Lina, a Shanghai-based
vaccine expert told the Global Times.
The data signals Sinopharm vaccine maybe close to being released on the market, Tao predicted.
Liu
said that since June, Sinopharm's phase three clinic trial in dozens of
countries and regions, including the UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, Peru and
Morocco have more than 50,000 participants.
The results have
moved the UAE ,Bahrain and other countries to approve urgent use of the
Sinopharm vaccine, according to Liu, who told the conferred that he is
"still alive and kicking, with no adverse reaction," after he was
vaccinated in March.
Liu said the examples and scientific data prove the effectiveness of the company's COVID-19 vaccine.
Liu
said Sinopharm is to produce about 100 million doses of vaccine by the
end of the year, and estimates it will make 1 billion doses next year,
to guarantee supplies especially for use by Chinese people, said Liu.
China
has approved three vaccines for urgent use. Their vaccines have been
given to high-risk groups, such as medical staff, diplomats sent to
most-affected countries, and employees sent overseas under the Belt and
Road Initiative.
These people have stayed abroad several months
after being vaccinated, Zhou Song, general counsel CNBG, a Sinopharm
subsidy said in September, according to the WeChat account of the
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the
State Council.