Expats in China Share Experiences Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine

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Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and East China's Zhejiang Province are pushing forward the mass inoculation of COVID-19 vaccines step by step for key groups including people in the cold-chain industries and public service sectors, with the goal of vaccinating 50 million people ahead of the 2021 Spring Festival holidays.

Six foreign teachers working in Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) also received the China-made COVID-19 vaccine to ensure they are  protected. Despite hearing different voices about side effects from the new vaccine, they said it's necessary to get vaccinated.

For the earliest possible victory over the COVID-19 pandemic, it's necessary to form a "collective immunity," and is especially "important for people in those professions that communicate with a large number of people, including teachers," Maxim Shishkov, from Russia, an associate professor of the School of Russian and Eurasian Studies, SISU, who came to China in September 2016.

Five COVID-19 vaccines globally have revealed their efficacy against the coronavirus, including two Chinese vaccines developed by Sinovac and Sinopharm.  Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine is 100 percent effective in preventing severe and moderate infections, according to researchers in Brazil. 

Tomasz Ewertowski, another SISU teacher from Poland, told the Global Times that he considers vaccines "one of the greatest inventions of humanity." He has taken the flu vaccine every few years.

"The vaccines don't have nationality," Ewertowski said, noting that it doesn't matter if  they are Chinese, Polish, American, India or Zimbabwe vaccines, as long as they have been properly tested and accepted by regulators, "I feel safe," he said.

Source:globaltimes

Editor: Crystal H

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