statement the tweet was accompanied with a fake news bannerchinese vaccines have been caught in a web of controversy covid19 vaccines from china have been battling allegations from various quarters that these are not effective enough the controversy was further compounded in april when george gau the head of chinas centre for disease control and prevention cdcp himself said at a press conference in april that we will solve the problem that current vaccines dont have very high protection ratesthe sinopharm vaccine had been granted emergency approval by the world health organization who only on may 7 this year to alleviate the global vaccine crunch the idea behind granting recognition to the chinese vaccine also was to address the issue of vaccine inequity as the developed world had cornered the global supply of vaccines