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Southeast Asia
Malaysia to Stop Using Sinovac Vaccine, Will Switch to Pfizer
2021-07-17
You know what they say: thirty minutes after you get the Chinese jab, you’re hungry sick again.
[BenarNews] Malaysia will stop using China’s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, the health minister said Thursday without specifying why, days after Thailand and Indonesia announced that many of their citizens would get a non-Sinovac booster jab if they had received the Chinese shot.

Thailand and Indonesia announced their policies on a booster shot amid growing concerns about the effectiveness of the Chinese-made vaccine, and after some people in those countries died of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
despite being inoculated with two shots of Sinovac.

After authorities in Kelantan said the state would stop using Sinovac, Malaysian Health Minister Adham Baba confirmed the move and said it would soon apply nationwide because the country had ordered more vaccines from another company.

"So, it started in Kelantan and soon other states will follow. As a replacement [for Sinovac] for the rest of the population that will be vaccinated, we will give Pfizer’s [vaccine]," Adham said at a press briefing.

"[W]e have secured 45.7 million [doses] of Pfizer compared to 16 million doses of Sinovac. Half of the Sinovac vaccines were already given and we will use the other half for the second dose."

On Monday, Thailand’s government said that it planned to give AstraZeneca jabs to those who had received the Sinovac vaccine as their first jab. The decision came after unconfirmed reports about the low efficacy of Sinovac and the weekend death of a nurse who was given both shots of the Chinese jab.

Last week, Indonesia said it planned to give a third vaccination to many of the 1.47 million medical workers inoculated with Sinovac, using a jab developed by Moderna — another American drug firm — to protect them from the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19.

An Indonesian volunteer group that keeps tabs on pandemic data, LaporCOVID-19, said more than 1,100 health workers had succumbed to the virus since the start of the pandemic. At least 85 had died this month although some had been fully vaccinated with Sinovac.

Malaysia is in the throes of a huge rise in coronavirus infections.

On Thursday, the country broke the daily case record for the third day in a row, reporting 13,215 new infections, bringing the total caseload to 880,782. With 110 new virus-related deaths, the pandemic’s corpse count here rose to 6,613.

On July 5, Malaysia received 1 million doses of Pfizer from the United States, which is giving away its excess vaccines.
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Posted by:trailing wife

#5  where are we at with that again?

It's been in "At this point, what difference does it make?" territory with the left in general and the Bidet* misministration in particular.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-07-17 10:02  

#4  And the precise origins of this attack and efforts to preclude a reoccurrence, where are we at with that again ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-07-17 06:16  

#3  ^Bennett wants to move dealing with Covid (and epidemics in general) from Dep. Health to Home Front Defense.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-07-17 04:20  

#2  Netanyahu: gov't must bring in millions of virus vaccines to fend off surging infections

Bennett: vaccines alone not enough to beat COVID-19
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-07-17 04:16  

#1  Singapore does not consider you vaccinated if you got the ChiComVac jab. Thailand remains a hot mess.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2021-07-17 04:08  

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