A video posted on social media by the Chinese Communist Party’s youth league claims that over half the world’s vaccines have come from China. It was posted on Weibo – the Chinese version of Twitter – at the end of September, just as the number of Covid vaccines administered globally had passed six billion (according to the website Our World in Data).
So, was China responsible for producing more than three billion of these – both for domestic use and for export? China is known to have a very big production capability and claims to have administered 2.2 billion of its own vaccine doses (as of 27 September).
However, it is not certain how many doses have been administered by China within the country based on its own figures. China is also a leading exporter of vaccines – both via commercial partnerships and donations. Some of these exports are in the form of bulk vaccine components which are processed and packaged in the destination countries.
The Chinese foreign ministry stated (on 23 September) that “China has provided 1.2 billion doses of finished and bulk vaccines to more than 100 countries and international organizations”.
The data analytics company, Airfinity, has tracked global production, and estimates that China has exported commercially 1.1 billion doses (as of 8 October) of its vaccines to 123 countries (as either bulk substances or finished doses).
Of these, around 110 million have been purchased by the Covax global vaccine-sharing scheme to provide vaccines to lower-income countries. In addition, according to UN data, China has so far delivered around 37 million doses as donations (as of 1 October) out of a total pledged of around 52 million.
So the Chinese claim of 1.2 billion doses exported may be slightly on the high side, but pretty much matches the combined estimates of others outside China (1.138 billion). Added to the figure of 2.2 billion for doses given in China itself, that’s more than half of six billion doses given globally. Some of the export deals China has done with other countries involve partnerships to produce vaccines abroad. [BBC]
China set up this COVID-19 inorder to make profit from it. They seem to be succeeding in that evil plan.