Vaccine Star's Surprise Downfall Indicative Of Trouble In China’s COVID Push?

Apparently months after his actual detention, news has finally surfaced that a key researcher behind China's rapid development of a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine is said to have "severely violated" Communist Party rules and regulations and is the subject of a probe for possible corruption.

DOUBTS OVER EFFICACY OF CHINA'S SINOPHARM COVID VACCINES
China's vaccine Czar downfall indicates deepr troubles, prompts vaccine hesitation • Source: Shutterstock

Once hailed as a national hero and awarded medals for his contribution to develop in record-breaking time China's first vaccine to fend off a quickly spreading virus, Yang Xiaoming is now at the center of an apparent corruption investigation.

A brief 28 April announcement of the probe into Yang, chief engineer and chief scientist at the Sino Biotech Group under the nation’s huge state-owned conglomerate Sinopharm Group Co., Ltd., shocked the vaccine and broader biopharma sectors in China

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