The Wall Street Journal (paid site) reports that nearly one million Chinese people have been vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine from Sinopharm.
The vaccine has been administered to people - including Chinese workers abroad, government officials and students - as part of an emergency-use authorization by the Chinese Government in July. Only a few of those vaccinated experienced mild symptoms and not a single person had a serious adverse reaction, according to a company statement citing Sinopharm Chairman, Liu Jingzhen.
In the statement Sinopharm said it was leading the world in all aspects of vaccine development but did not offer evidence from ongoing international clinical trials that its vaccine is effective.
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