By Yong Xiong, CNN
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and senior state officials have obtained national COVID-19 vaccines, the ruling Communist Party said in a rare disclosure aimed at pushing China’s withdrawal program.
Deputy head of the National Health Commission (NHC), Zeng Yixin, said on Saturday that “all incumbent states and chiefs in China” have been vaccinated against Covid-19 with vaccines manufactured at the national point, referring to senior officials at the national point and national deputy, a category that includes Xi, Premier Li Keqiang and other high-level leaders.
It’s exceptionally rare for health-related data from China’s leaders to be made public, but they came amid a recent wave of COVID-19 infections and public concerns about vaccine safety.
Zeng said when officials were vaccinated or if they gained any reminders. The prestige of Xi’s vaccination had been revealed to the public before.
China has sought to answer questions about protecting its vaccines and increasing its vaccination rates, especially among the elderly. While only 90% of the Chinese population eligible for the vaccine has been fully vaccinated, only 61% of other people during the rest of the years. 80-year-olds have been fully vaccinated and only 38. 4% have gained boosters, according to the NHC.
On Saturday, the NHC addressed the online hypothesis about vaccine protection and added allegations that they cause leukemia and diabetes in children, statistics showing no evidence of those vaccine-related diseases.
Of the nearly 3. 4 billion doses of covid-19 administered in China, only about 70 more people reported millions of side effects, a much larger decrease than other vaccines such as polio, measles, hepatitis B, rabies and influenza. the NHC said. .
So far, China has only approved vaccines made for use on the mainland, adding those from Sinopharm and Sinovac that use inactivated viruses instead of genetically modified mRNA vaccines. In trials, those vaccines showed lower efficacy than their mRNA counterparts: one complaint Beijing dismissed it as “prejudice-driven defamation. “Instead, Beijing has pointed to the effect of vaccines on reducing severe cases and deaths as a measure of its success.
China has pursued a “zero covid” policy this year despite the increased transmissibility of the Omicron variant, prompting similar countries to abandon the approach.
Several cities have been closed in reaction to new waves of infection, and last month, Beijing Communist Party leader Cai Qi said the city could keep politics in place “for the next five years. “
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