China in talks with WHO over assessing its COVID-19 vaccines for global use


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October 6, 2020 Media tour at Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech in Beijing SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use, a WHO official said on Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of essential workers and other groups considered at high risk in China have been given locally-developed vaccines even as clinical trials had not been fully completed, raising safety concerns among experts. Socorro Escalate, WHO’s coordinator for essential medicines and health technologies in the Western Pacific region, told a news...