| LurkerJ said: Surprised to see China still pushing for Zero-covid19 policies, I wonder if their failure of a vaccine is the reason for this. |
That's a matter of perspective though, their are still on avg 160 people dying every day in the UK of Covid-19 and close to 2 million currently infected. But the draconian measures in China are not sustainable. (Over 165K deaths in the UK, 4,600 in China)
China is 86% fully vaccinated vs UK 73%. It's not a failure of a vaccine, it's just a different mindset. 50K daily new cases is the new normal in UK, China locks cities down after a couple dozen cases.
Shanghai recorded another 13,354 cases on Monday -- the vast majority of them asymptomatic -- bringing the city's total to more than 73,000 since the latest wave of infections began last month. No deaths have been ascribed to the outbreak driven by the omicron BA.2 variant, which is much more infectious but also less lethal than the previous delta strain.
A separate outbreak continues to rage in the northeastern province of Jilin and the capital Beijing also saw an additional nine cases, just one of them asymptomatic. Workers shut down an entire shopping center in the city where a case had been detected.
But yes, their vaccine is seen as weaker and they have the problem that the vulnerable won't get vaccinated, doh
While China's vaccination rate hovers around 90%, its domestically produced inactivated virus vaccines are seen as weaker than the mRNA vaccines such as those produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna that are used abroad, as well as in the Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macao. Vaccination rates among the elderly are also much lower than the population at large, with only around half of those over 80 fully vaccinated.
