Thai specialist: Sinovac can provide up to 99.4% immunity


A person receives the second dose of Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine at the Bang Khun Thian Geriatric Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand on April 21, 2021. - Reuters

BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): The Sinovac vaccine provides as much as “99.4 per cent immunity against Covid-19 a month after the second dose”, Chulalongkorn University virology specialist and chief of the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology Dr Yong Poovorawan said in a Facebook post on Thursday (April 22).

He was citing a study on immunity by the centre and Banphaeo General Hospital in Samut Sakhon.

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