Top Beijing official admits efficacy of China’s Covid vaccines is low

Head of country's disease control centre says vaccines don't have very high protection rates'

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China's top disease control official has admitted that the efficacy of the country's domestically produced vaccines is low as it emerged the authorities are considering mixing them to try to offer greater protection against coronavirus.

The rare admission of weakness on the part of Beijing's pandemic approach came from the director of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gao Fu, who said Chinese vaccines don't have very high protection rates".