China awards country’s 1st Covid-19 vaccine patent amid ‘baseless’ US claims that Beijing stole coronavirus research


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China awards country’s 1st Covid-19 vaccine patent amid ‘baseless’ US claims that Beijing stole coronavirus research 17 Aug, 2020 09:23 FILE PHOTO: A technician at Chinese vaccine maker CanSino Biologics in Tianjin, China November 20, 2018. © REUTERS/Stringer Follow RT on China has approved the country’s first-ever coronavirus vaccine patent, state media reported, paving the way for home-grown inoculation against the illness. The vaccine, named Ad5-nCoV, was developed by biopharmaceutical firm CanSino Biologics in partnership with a team led by a Chinese military infectious disease expert. In a statement to the Global Times, the Chinese firm said that the patent...