The vaccine named Sinopharm vaccine was found to produce  73 side effects.

On Dec. 30 of last year, BBIBP-CorV, an inactivated vaccine produced by China National Biotec Group (CNBG), a subsidiary of China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation (Sinopharm), was officially approved by China's National Medical Products Administration for general use in the communist country, reports Taiwan News.

This was the first vaccine approved by the country to combat COVID-19.

The Chinese firm also claimed that it has an efficacy rate of 79.34 percent based on late-stage trials.

Vaccine expert Tao Lina, however, recently uploaded a digital version of the vaccine's instruction manual onto his Weibo page which showed a different reality.

He stated that after he read the manual as quoted by Taiwan News, "I took in a long cold breath, and counted the conditions listed in the 'adverse reactions' column." 

He found that there were 73 local/systemic adverse reactions associated with the vaccine.

The vaccine expert found that in addition to pain in the injection site and headache, there were severe side effects listed that were "more likely to occur," such as high blood pressure, loss of vision, loss of taste, delayed menstruation, and urinary incontinence.