Fight against corona: One country has hundreds of thousands vaccinated against corona virus - despite the great risks

Finding a vaccine against the coronavirus is like a global race.

China is setting a spectacular pace in the fight against Corona - including great risks, as research by the news magazine Spiegel shows.

• Coronavirus pandemic

  : Research is being carried out worldwide into a

  vaccine

  against the

  pathogen SARS-CoV-2

  .

• According to a

  Spiegel

  report,

  China is

  vaccinating

  hundreds of thousands against

  corona

  - and taking high risks.

• The

  Covid-19

  vaccines

  of the company

  Sinovac, Sinopharm and Cansino

  currently undergoing testing phase III - are but not nearly mature.

Munich / Beijing - The topic is as complicated as it is present: the search for a

against the insidious

After how many test phases can a

against the

come onto the market?

Are rush actions in medical research

necessary or dangerous

in the fight against

?

And last but not least: Which country will supply the first nationwide

?

Corona vaccine: China is taking a high risk in the fight against the coronavirus

At least to the last question,

now given an answer.

This is shown by research by the news magazine

(behind a payment barrier).

As a result, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have already been vaccinated with the various vaccines from the domestic pharmaceutical companies

and

.

"Four vaccine candidates from three Chinese pharmaceutical companies - Sinovac, Sinopharm and CanSino - are currently undergoing phase III tests," the report said.

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Beijing: Participants with mouth and nose protection attend an event in the Great Hall of the People in honor of those fighting the corona pandemic.

© Shen Hong / dpa

Coronavirus vaccine: China is testing vaccines from three domestic pharmaceutical companies

In practice this means the following: According to

, a representative from

said

in September that 350,000 Chinese had already received an "emergency vaccination".

And the CEO of

, Yin Weidong, said that 90 percent of his employees had been vaccinated with the in-house drug.

In addition, the Beijing city government has ordered tens of thousands of doses of the

, which has

yet to prove

itself from a neutral perspective as a blocker against

.

Der

speaks of a "silent vaccination campaign" in

.

The

reported in July that state-owned employees

were offered

(alleged)

targeted manner.

Coronavirus vaccine: China allegedly takes significant risks

And there would remain considerable risks - namely:

• China's search for a corona vaccine

  : Allegedly no clinical trials with hundreds of thousands of people vaccinated.

• The

  vaccines

  from living or killed pathogens (vaccines) have not been fully tested.

• The risk of infection with the

  coronavirus

  is said to be

  practically zero

  in

  China

  - do the current

  vaccines

  actually protect against infection with the

  SARS-CoV-2 pathogen

  ?

• A kind of sham security is created in China.

• And last but not least: What are the possible side effects of the previously administered drugs?

Question after question.

moving at a fast pace in the search for a binding answer - and is obviously taking just as high a risk.

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