{"id":83637,"date":"2021-03-18T15:13:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T15:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=114542"},"modified":"2021-03-18T15:13:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T15:13:48","slug":"china-and-russia-vaccines-defeat-cold-war-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/18\/china-and-russia-vaccines-defeat-cold-war-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"China and Russia Vaccines Defeat Cold War Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"
A friend in need is a friend indeed, and several countries which may have previously sniffed at vaccines produced by China and Russia are finding truth in the old adage.<\/p>\n
China is ramping up supplies of its CoronaVac to Brazil and other Latin American countries where Covid-19 infections are threatening to overwhelm public health services. Brazil has become a new global hotspot for deadly variants of the coronavirus. With nearly 280,000 deaths, the most populous country in Latin America has the second-highest global toll after the United States (533,000).<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, several European nations are reportedly in discussions to produce Russia\u2019s Sputnik V vaccine after a breakthrough deal last week with Italy \u2013 the first member the European Union \u2013 to start local production of the Russian jab. Germany, France and Spain are among other EU states considering similar local manufacturing arrangements for Sputnik V.<\/p>\n
The European need is made all the more acute because of the slow rollout of approved vaccines and recently the pausing of the AstraZeneca jab by several nations owing to concerns about potentially fatal side-effects from blood-clotting.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the thing. China\u2019s and Russia\u2019s vaccines have been shown to be effective against Covid-19 symptoms and safe. The jabs are easily mass produced at an affordable cost compared with Western counterparts, and both China and Russia have said they are willing to provide license agreements for local production which would expedite supply logistics<\/i>.<\/p>\n