Turkey joins UAE, Bahrain to re-vaccinate its public who earlier vaccinated with Chinese Sinovac
After UAE, Turkey re-vaccinated its public who were vaccinated with Sinovac Chinese vaccine. In a huge blow to the Chinese ego, world over nations are launching a re-vaccination program for those who got vaccinated with a Chinese made corona vaccine known as ‘Sinovac’. As per the report, the Chinese vaccines could be a ploy by the Communist regime to spread the Chinese Corona Virus even further.
Like the UAE, Turkey is now trying to revaccinate its Sinovac vaccinated public without coming out and directly speaking about its doubts on the Chinese vaccine. All in all a heavy blow for China’s global prestige.
Turkey’s health minister, Fahrettin Koca, said it would offer a third vaccine dose to healthcare workers and people over the age of 50. That third dose isn’t dependent on which vaccine was used for the previous two. Turkey is currently using both the vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE and another made by the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech Ltd.
“The choice is yours,” said Mr. Koca.
In response to questions from The Wall Street Journal, the Turkish Ministry of Health said that it is offering the booster shot because some healthcare workers and older people received their initial doses six months ago. At the time, Turkey was only offering the Sinovac vaccine.
Turkey isn’t the first country to offer booster shots to people who have received a Chinese-made vaccine. Bahrain has been giving Pfizer-BioNTech shots to people who received two doses of a vaccine made by Chinese drugmaker Sinopharm. The United Arab Emirates is giving third doses of the Sinopharm vaccine as doctors say the Chinese-made shots in some cases haven’t generated enough protective antibodies.
Turkey is not alone. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have made the Pfizer/BioNTech (PFE.N), coronavirus vaccine available as a booster shot to those initially immunised with a vaccine developed by the China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm).
The Gulf states, which have vaccinated large portions of their populations, initially started inoculating residents and citizens with the Sinopharm COVID-19 shot before later introducing other vaccines.
Bahrain is currently fighting its biggest wave of infections, while the UAE is recording nearly twice as many COVID-19 cases as it was seven months ago.
There have been concerns about the efficacy of the Sinopharm vaccine, granted emergency approval by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in May, due to limited published clinical data being available.
Several countries are expected to join the Re-vaccination campaign due to the failure of Chinese made vaccines
