CCP Purges Regime’s Top Vaccine Expert Who Developed China’s First COVID-19 Jab

The packaging for the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center set up at the Chaoyang Museum of Urban Planning in Beijing, China, on April 20, 2021. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images

Chinese scientist Yang Xiaoming, the chief researcher who led the development of China’s first COVID-19 vaccine, is under investigation and has been ousted from the National People’s Congress, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rubber-stamp parliament. 

On April 23, the Chinese state media reported that Mr. Yang had been stripped of his position as a delegate to the National People’s Congress of the CCP “due to serious discipline and law violations.”