More than 350 Indonesian healthcare workers who were vaccinated with China's Sinovac vaccine caught COVID-19, Reuters reported.
While the majority of those who tested positive for the coronavirus were asymptomatic, dozens needed hospital care.
Badai Ismoyo, head of the health office in the district of Kudus in Central Java, told the outlet that more than 90% of the facility's beds are occupied. 5,000 healthcare workers are currently dealing with the outbreak, about 7% of whom have become infected.
It's likely that the outbreak is fueled by the more transmissible Delta variant, which originated in India. The number of workers testing positive has prompted officials to question how effective the Sinovac vaccine is against variants....
"The data shows they have the Delta variant (in Kudus) so it is no surprise that the breakthrough infection is higher than before, because, as we know, the majority of healthcare workers in Indonesia got Sinovac, and we still don't know yet how effective it is in the real world against the Delta variant," Dicky Budiman, an epidemiologist at Australia's Griffith University told Reuters.
Last month, Indonesian health officials said the Sinovac vaccine was estimated to be 98% effective at preventing death and 96% effective at preventing hospitalization.
The statistic came after 128,000 healthcare workers who were vaccinated were monitored between January and March and it was found that 94% of them hadn't caught symptomatic COVID-19....
Indonesia recorded over 1.9 million infections with 53,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Doctors and nurses accounted for close to 950 deaths. They were the first to receive the Sinovac vaccine in January. Yahoo News
Someone has been pushing this report to try to discredit Chinese vaccines here and all over the media. When reading such reports, one must be very careful about what is being reported, who is reporting it and what is the agenda.
At face value, without understanding the big picture and taking the report andnumbers in isolation, it gives the impression that Chinese vaccines are ineffective against Delta variant. Contrary, by intentionally refusing to report about the infection and death due to mRNA vaccines, it gives the impression that they are safe, no infection, no death. To get a better picture, one needs to compare apple with apple and orange with orange and not to take isolated numbers and incidents to paint a big picture. To take a few numbers out of context is not representative and often mischievous.
Indonesia has about 3m infections. 350 health workers against 2m infection or against a population of more than 300m is very very different from 350 workers against a 60,000 infection or a population of 10m. Since the airport incident and the cases in the hospitals here, how many healthcare workers have been infected, how many in total has been infected, how many have been vaccinated with mRNA vaccines have been infected? The numbers would tell a very different picture.
To get a fair answer, one needs a comparative study with similar numbers in other countries using mRNA vaccines to be able to say which is better relatively. Why were there practically no reports of infection rate and death of people being vaccinated in other countries? Really no infection and no death?
Did we not hear often that getting vaccinated doesn't mean cannot be infected? We have numbers being reported daily, what are Singapore's numbers on healthcare workers and of the public that have been vaccinated with mRNA vaccines and still got infected? Is our number bigger than the 350 cases of healthcare workers in Indonesia?
The other important point to note is that getting infected is expected, and the probability is definitely higher among healthcare workers and in Indonesia when the daily and overall infection is very much higher than this piece of rock. And the other consideration is how many or what percentage was serious, needed hospitalisation or even death. Compare the numbers in countries that were using mRNA vaccines with an awareness that some so called 'transparent and democratic' countries are anything but transparent and hiding and lying and doctoring their data to present a false picture to show the world.
Do not take things at face value, take data in isolation, and beware of conspiracy and people with mischievous agenda and lying to get their way to misinform, to lie, to push a different agenda and narrative.