{"id":30801,"date":"2021-04-11T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T09:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/11\/china-considers-mixing-covid-vaccines-to-give-greater-protection"},"modified":"2021-04-12T02:56:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T17:56:32","slug":"china-considers-mixing-covid-vaccines-to-give-greater-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30801","title":{"rendered":"Top Beijing official admits efficacy of China\u2019s Covid vaccines is low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of country\u2019s disease control centre says vaccines \u2018don\u2019t have very high protection rates\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s top disease control official has admitted that the efficacy of the country\u2019s domestically produced vaccines is low as it emerged the authorities are considering mixing them to try to offer greater protection against coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The rare admission of weakness on the part of Beijing\u2019s pandemic approach came from the director of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gao Fu, who said Chinese vaccines \u201cdon\u2019t have very high protection rates\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/11\/china-considers-mixing-covid-vaccines-to-give-greater-protection\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of country\u2019s disease control centre says vaccines \u2018don\u2019t have very high protection rates\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina\u2019s top disease control official has admitted that the efficacy of the country\u2019s domestically &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2083,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,452,50,1066,346,512,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-brazil","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-medical-research","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30814,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30801\/revisions\/30814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}