China Reports Tens Of Thousands Inoculated In First Days Of COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign

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A staff member checks the packaging quality of COVID-19 inactivated vaccine products at a packaging plant of the Beijing Biological Products Institute Co., Ltd. in Beijing, last month.





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However, Chinese state regulators cleared the vaccine for broader public use in China on the same day. The UAE was the first to approve Sinopharm’s vaccine for commercial use in early December. Bahrain quickly followed, and a handful of countries have already placed orders for Sinopharm’s vaccines, including Pakistan and Ukraine.

Since the summer, Sinopharm and another vaccine maker, Sinovac, have already injected millions of Chinese citizens, many of them state employees, under emergency use guidelines.

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