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(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 9, 2020, a health worker prepares a syringe to inoculate a volunteer with a COVID-19 vaccine produced by China s Sinopharm during its trial at the Clinical Studies Center of the Cayetano Heredia University in Lima. (Photo by ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP) The Sinopharm jab, which has surged ahead of a raft of Chinese competitors during Phase 3 trials, could signal a breakthrough in the battle to squash the pandemic in Asia.
China has granted “conditional” market approval to a Sinopharm vaccine with a reported 79 percent efficacy rate against Covid-19, health authorities said Thursday, a major stride towards inoculating the world’s largest po
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China approves 1st homegrown vaccine as COVID-19 pandemic surges globally
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Biden criticizes pace of coronavirus vaccine rollout, vows to accelerate
President-elect Joe Biden on Dec. 29 gave remarks on the state of the pandemic and criticized the Trump administration for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines, saying it is falling behind.
BEIJING (AP) - China has approved its first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine for general use, health regulators said Thursday, marking the addition of another vaccine in the global fight against a virus that is surging back in many places as winter sets in.
The two-dose vaccine from state-owned Sinopharm is the first approved for general use in China. The go-ahead comes shortly after the country launched a program to vaccinate 50 million people before the Lunar New Year holiday in February. It also comes one day after British regulators authorized AstraZeneca s inexpensive and easy-to-handle vaccine.
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