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DUBAI (REUTERS) - Bahrain has started inoculating frontline workers with a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine, state news agency BNA said on Tuesday (Nov 3), the latest country to take the unusual step of granting emergency approval for a shot before finishing safety and efficacy tests. The programme will use a shot developed by Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm, which is in Phase III trials in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain and Jordan, BNA reported. In comments carried by BNA, Bahrain's Health Minister Faeqa bint Saeed Al Saleh said the use of the vaccine complies with the country's regulations on exceptional...
