Almost a million people have been given an experimental Chinese coronavirus vaccine

Ben Westcott and Sophie Jeong, CNN Almost a million people have been given an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Sinopharm as part of an emergency-use program authorized by Beijing, the Chinese pharmaceutical giant’s chairman said. No serious adverse effects have been reported from vaccine recipients so far, Sinopharm said Wednesday in an article on social media platform WeChat , citing Chairman Liu Jingzhen. “In emergency use, we now have used it on nearly a million people. We have not received any reports of serious adverse reaction, and only a few have some mild symptoms,” Liu said. Liu said the vaccine…