'The latest outbreak "may prove to be of a larger scale than the previous outbreak in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province" that first hit in May, the Global Times reported.'
- NPR,
An Outbreak Of The Coronavirus Delta Variant Has Spread To 15 Chinese Cities, July 30, 2021
'A fresh Covid outbreak in China has spread to more locations, raising concerns over the country's vulnerability to the highly contagious Delta variant.
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The outbreak has raised concerns about vaccines, as it emerged that some of those infected had been vaccinated.
Shao Yiming, a researcher with China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters on Saturday that breakthrough infections in vaccinated people "are expected".
The Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines - two of the most commonly used jabs in China - have been shown to be 50% to 79% effective in preventing symptomatic Covid infection in clinical trials around the world, but are highly effective in preventing hospitalisations or deaths.'
- BBC,
Nanjing: Concerns in China grow as Delta outbreak spreads, August 2, 2021
Context'Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine is just 39% effective in Israel where the delta variant is the dominant strain..'(SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)) - '..emerging evidence delta and at least one other variant may be adept at evading vaccine-induced antibodies..'Delta variant surges across U.S. South; political leaders clamp down again, August 3, 2021
(The Long Covid) - '..patients struggling with Long Covid..'