A medical worker takes a box of Sinovac’s vaccine against the coronavirus disease from a refrigerator at a community health centre in Qingdao, Shandong province, China January 5, 2021. — China Daily pic via ReutersSANTIAGO, April 12 — Chilean authorities yesterday backed the country’s widespread use of the Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by Chinese firm Sinovac after China’s top disease official appeared to make conflicting statements about its efficacy.
The Covid-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac was found to be just over 50 per cent effective in reducing infection in Brazilian clinical trials. A real-world study of vaccination and contagion data by the University of Chile suggested last week the vaccine was 54 per cent effective in reducing infection.
The country has largely relied on the Sinovac vaccine, along with smaller numbers of Pfizer’s equivalent drug, to roll out one of the world’s fastest vaccination campaigns, so far inoculating 4.6 million people with two doses and 7.2 million with one. Yesterday, Chilean science minister Andres Couve said it was important to focus on the data and the vaccine’s effectiveness in reducing illness that required medical treatment or being hospitalised or dying, which it achieved in the Brazilian study in 83.7 per cent and 100 per cent of cases respectively.
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