China’s CNBG to donate 200,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to medics in Wuhan


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China National Biotec Group (CNBG) said on Thursday (Sep 24) it will donate 200,000 doses of its candidate coronavirus vaccine to the central city of Wuhan, where the virus first emerged late last year. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken experimental vaccines in China before clinical trials are completed, thanks to an emergency use programme launched in July to protect essential workers and limited groups of people facing high infection risk, raising safety concern among experts. Advertisement READ: China shows off COVID-19 vaccines for first time The 200,000 shots of a vaccine developed by CNBG's Wuhan unit, enough to...