Chinese drugmaker SinoPharm setting up Covid-19 vaccine production lines

Digital health ID not mandatory for accessing COVID vaccine: Health Ministry Chinaࢀ™s fledgling drug industry is part of a global race to produce a vaccine and has four candidates in final stages of testing. Health experts say, however, that even if China succeeds, stringent certification rules in the United States, Europe and Japan might mean its vaccine can be distributed only in other developing countries. SinoPharm is testing two vaccines in countries including Egypt, Argentina, Jordan and Peru, Liu said. Both are inactivated, meaning they use a non-infectious version of the coronavirus. According to Liu, production lines for vaccines are…