China mouthpiece slams criticism of Beijing injecting unproven Covid vaccine to citizens

Reacting to a New York Times report that China is injecting unproven COVID-19 vaccines to thousands of its citizens, Hu Xijin, editor of Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) mouthpiece Global Times said that "se Americans should be concerned about US' failure in containing pandemic."

'China's vaccines have unkwn risks?'

Sharing a snip of report on Twitter, Chinese stooge added that US should be concerned about its public health and loss of American lives. "Disrespect for life is more like what US is doing. y don't need to worry about China's epidemic fight," he said. 

Chinese stooge's attack comes as US, for first time since mid-August, saw a rise in COVID-19 cases across country on Friday as per latest updates by Johns Hopkins University, reported by CNN. According to university's update, US continues to be worst-affected country from virus with over 7.04 million COVID-19 cases reported in country and 203,918 fatalities due to COVID-19.

China gives unproven COVID-19 vaccines to thousands

China has already begun injecting its unproven vaccine to workers at state-owned companies, government officials, vaccine company staff, teachers, supermarket employees and people travelling risky areas abroad, report stated. report stated that officials are laying out plans to give shots to even more people, citing emergency use, amounting to a big wr that vaccines will eventually prove to be safe and effective.

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While unproven vaccines might have harmful side effects, Dr Kim Mulholland, a paediatrician at Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia, was quoted as saying, "My worry for employees of companies is it may be difficult for m to refuse."

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As a large number of people in China are getting injected with unproven vaccine, it can be said that ne of people is getting shot on ir choice. It is reported that companies have asked people to sign a n-disclosure agreement before getting injected with vaccine to prevent m from giving any information to media.

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Meanwhile, mainland China reported 21 new Coronavirus cases on September 27, up from 14 a day earlier, national health authority said on Monday. total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in mainland China w stands at 85,372, while death toll remained unchanged at 4,634.

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(With ncy inputs)