China Policy Change COVID MRNA Vaccines19 Oct 2022 18:53
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Officially, China is sticking to its highly unpopular zero-Covid policy, which has contributed to pushing China’s consumer sentiment index to its lowest level in history and the slowest economic growth in over 30 years. Yet Chinese investors appear to anticipate a major coming shift in policy.
In the past week, the healthcare sector of the CSI 300 Index jumped by 11.6%, with leading biotech companies up by 15% to 20%. The biotech rally suggests that investors expect a national shift to the Covid policy used successfully in Hong Kong, the only Chinese city that employed Western mRNA vaccines on a large scale.
Although mRNA shots do not stop infection by the newest Omicron variants of Covid-19, they appear to reduce the severity of illness and the death rate. China’s homemade Sinovac shot, a traditional not mRNA vaccine, has proven largely ineffective against Omicron.
Meanwhile, the Chinese government is assembling a team of European scientists to advise it on vaccine policy. Introducing a mRNA shot on the mainland would signal an alternative to the mass lockdowns of the zero-Covid policy.
In related news, Indonesia approved an mRNA vaccine developed by the Chinese firm Walvax, the first-ever certification of a Chinese-made mRNA vaccine, on September 30.
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